New Russian translations of Timur's Autobiography" and "Tales of Genghis Khan and Aksak Temir" have the task of familiarizing the Soviet reader with the legends and legends associated with the great historical movements that shook Asia and Eastern Europe in the XIII-XIV-XV centuries. In these legends and songs, a peculiar era of the history of the East found a vivid and colorful reflection, which for a long time sunk into the memory of the peoples moving between Mongolia and India, China and the Caspian. The names of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane entered the world circulation. Printed legends and songs draw their image as it was reflected in the minds of the tribal and social environment closest to them.