About the issue, articles and the authors (editor’s word)

Multifaceted modernization

Lamazhaa Ch. K. Post-Soviet Tuvan archaization waves

Times of changes

Ondar Ch.-D. B. The first democratic election in Tuva of 1990 (an extract of the manuscript “Lessons of life and a quest”)

Begzi A. D. From the plan—… to the plan. Jubilee of economic agencies of Tuva and a task of strategic planning

90^th anniversary of Tuvan Statehood

Harunova M. M.-B. Scholars about the history of Tuvan Statehood

Saaya A. P. About some preconditions of adopting the first written constitutions of the People’s Republic of Tuva

Dubrovskiy O. N. Formation of local self-government in People’s Republic of Tuva (1921-1944)

Mongush B. B. Formation of the state symbols of the People’s Republic of Tuva

Dyrtyk-ool A. O. Development of regional ethnography in the People’s Republic of Tuva

Tuva yesterday, today, tomorrow

Kuzhuget A. K. Innokentiy Safianov – a politician, philanthropist and a regional ethnographer

Kuular E. M., Suvandii N. D. Sex-and-age conditional names of reindeers in dialects of the Tuvan language

Nomads of the Asian continent

Popov Yu. V., Tyugashev E. A. Civilizational identity of Mongolia in the context of East-West dichotomy.

Ivanov A. V. Sacred territories as keepers of traditional values of Eurasian nations (on the examples of Ukok plato in Altai and Erdeneburen valley in Western Mongolia)

Baydarov E. U. Ecological aspect of the culture of Eurasian Nomads

Tuguzhekova V. N. Traditional rituals of Khakas people: history and modernity

Basangova T. G. Sart-Kalmyk version of “Jangar” (text, main motives)

Human and nature

Grechischev O. K. Names of geologists eternalized in names of minerals

Zaikov V. V. Doyen of Tuvan geology service (to the 80^th anniversary of S.S. Kulikov)

Scientific life

Abayev N. V. Inner Asia – a cradle of Eurasian civilization

Dongak A. S., Abayev N. V. 10^th International Congress of Mongolists

Basangova T. G. Folklore expedition devoted to 100^th anniversary of record of Kalmyk heroic epos “Jangar”

First attempt at writing

Lopsan M. M. Name of the forest in Tuvan language in comparison with other Turkic languages

We read, we cogitate

Eurasian world: values, constants, civilization

Selivyorstov S. V. Eurasian world: theory and empirics (which direction do the modern Eurasian studies develop?)

Gavrov S. N. We are ancestry of forest and steppe, a great empire of Genghis Khan dynasty

Linnik Yu. V.  Horizons of Eurasian

Mongush M. V. Unknown pages of the history of Tuvan Autonomous Region of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

The land of blue rivers

Suzukey V. Yu. Aldyn-ool Sevek, a “shield” of Tuvan throat-singing

Beyond the Sayan mountains

Mongush M. V. Eastern kaleidoscope (Orientalist’s notes)

Shapinskaya E. N. India: reachable and unreachable

Kashbyk-ool S. A. What to start the education from in Switzerland