The collection is dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Khorezm archaeological and ethnographic expedition and the 90th anniversary of its creator and long-term leader S.P. Tolstoy. The collection contains articles by his students and followers. The range of issues raised by the authors of the collection is very wide. This is the ethnic history and ethnogenesis of the population of Central Asia and other peoples, the religious systems of the ancient East, the history of cities and settlements, Central Asian crafts based on ethnographic materials, etc. All this topic is of great interest to researchers of the history of the East in a wide chronological range.