The next issue of the Turkic collection is devoted to Turkic-Slavic and Turkic-Russian relations in the Middle Ages and modern times. Materials on these problems were presented by authors from Abakan, Barnaul, Bishkek, Yoshkar-Ola, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Ryazan, St. Petersburg, Tashkent. The geographical scope of research is the Black Sea region, the Volga region, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Southern Siberia. Various forms of contacts between the Russian and Turkic peoples during the XII-XX centuries. in the political, economic, cultural and religious spheres, their reflection in Russian medieval literature and journalism, the process of joining the Turkic peoples to Russia and finding them in its composition.