The first international symposium "Kyrgyz-Turkic relations from ancient times to the present day"was held on May 5-7, 2013 under the auspices of President of Turkey A. Gul and President of Kyrgyzstan A. Atanbayev at the Uludag University in Bursa. It is organized by Kyrgyz scientists, university professors and businessmen working in Turkey and Kyrgyzstan, Turkish researchers of Central Asia, Russian scientists studying the problems of medieval history of the ancient Turks and Kyrgyz. page 170 Chairman of the Organizing Committee, Professor of Ankara University G. Zhumakunova (Ankara, Turkey), Vice-rector of the Kyrgyz-Turkish University "Manas" A. M. Mokeev (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), Yu. S. Khudyakov (Novosibirsk, Russia), Rector of Uludag University K. Dilek, Professor of the Kyrgyz National University T. S. Khudyakov (Novosibirsk, Russia) addressed the participants of the symposium with greetings. Chorotegin (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan). The speakers discussed the prospects of cooperation between scientists from different countries in studying the history and culture of medieval and modern Turkic peoples. In the future, the work of the conference was continued in sections. The session of section " A " opened with a speech by V. Ya.Butanaev (Abakan, Russia), who shared with the audience his thoughts on information from medieval Chinese sources about the Yenisei Kyrgyz and the peculiarities of their language. According to the speaker, the ethnonym "Kyrgyz" can mean "steppe tribes", and some "Samoyedic" words have been preserved in the language of the Yenisei Kyrgyz. Yu. S. Khudyakov considered the development of weapons among the Kyrgyz of Southern Siberia and Central Asia in the IX-XII centuries. historical period. T. Chorotegin, a well-known Kyrgyz scholar and historian, Professor at the Kyrgyz National University (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), has studied the problems of studying the ancient and medieval history of the Kyrgyz people in Central Asia. He touched upon the issue of anc ... Читать далее