In modern historical studies, there are quite often references to various scientific works of A.N. Kurat. However, the scale of the work, the significance of the research of A.N. Kurat is still not fully disclosed. Institute of History. Sh. Mardzhani of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan decided to translate into Russian and publish the collected works of Akdes Nigmet Kurat. The editorial board decided to start publishing the collected works with his famous and already classic source study work "Labels and bits of the khans of the Golden Horde, Crimea and Turkestan in the archive of the Topkapi Palace Museum," published in Istanbul in 1940.