Academician Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky was engaged in literally all sections of modern philology - literary criticism, folklore, poetry, linguistics. V.M. Zhirmunsky managed to make a number of specific discoveries in the history of the study of the epic of the Turkic peoples and present a general genre typology of folk epic creativity. This volume of works by academician V.M. Zhirmunsky is not only a collection of his monographs and articles from the field of research of the Turkic epic. This is essentially a single capital work conceived and systematically implemented by the author.