The first volume of the collected works of Usein Abdurefievich Bodaninsky contains published and handwritten works that represent his scientific and creative heritage as an outstanding Crimean Tatar ethnographer and archaeologist, artist and ascetic of museum affairs in Crimea, founder and first director of the Bakhchisarai Palace Museum. The materials collected in the book are the most valuable sources on the history and ethnography of the Crimean Tatars, as well as on archeology and the development of museum work in Crimea.