The collection contains documents and materials from Russian and foreign archives dedicated to the history of the 1916 uprising in Turkestan, helping to objectively and impartially assess its causes and consequences, as well as prevent the possibility of a recurrence of such tragedies in the future. The publication is designed both for historians, university professors, students, and for a wide range of readers interested in the problems of the history of interethnic and intercultural relations in the Russian Empire and the states of the Eurasian continent - Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan at the beginning of the twentieth century.