A collection of articles collected by his colleagues, friends and students from all over the world from the USA to Japan is dedicated to the anniversary of the wonderful Iranian. The book combines research on texts, languages, history, archeology, numismatics and religions of Iran, Central Asia and co-extreme countries from antiquity to the present, from the Turpan oasis to the Caucasus and the North Caucasus. The subject matter of most of the articles covers all the main areas of scientific activity of V.A. Livshits is Sogdian, Khorezmian, Bactrian, Parthian and Middle Persian philology, and previously unknown texts are published in a number of works. The book will come in handy for more than one hero of the day, but it will be of interest to Iranists of any profile and is recommended to all university and academic libraries.