The series of books "Tales and Myths of the Peoples of the East" of the Main Edition of Oriental Literature (GRVL) of the Nauka Publishing House (Moscow), which was regularly published in the 1960s and 1990s (the last books were published in 2001 and 2004), was founded in 1964 with the aim of scientific publication of monuments of folk art of the peoples of the East. Includes collections of fairy tales of one or one people of the East or several peoples of one country or an entire region. Fairy tales are published in accurate translations, without literary processing.