Tartaria Magna is a magazine that has been needed for a long time. It's not just about the content, which will be discussed below. First of all, I would like to mention the approach of the journal's creators, which solves several problems that exist in the field of scientific journals in Russia. First, it is a free electronic magazine (www.tartaria-magna.ru) with the ability to view or download in PDF format. In conditions when many journals and collections are published in small print runs and are sometimes inaccessible to potential readers (it is noteworthy that scientists themselves sometimes call such publications "mass graves"), publishing articles in electronic form is a successful and correct decision. Secondly, unlike other electronic publications, Tartaria Magna is a peer-reviewed journal that is integrated into specialized search engines (Elibrary-RSCI, OOODACADEMY) and social networks (Academia.edu, Facebook). Tartaria Magna is published 3 times a year and distributed to thousands of specialists around the world. This approach significantly expands the scientist's ability to make the results of their research available to the scientific community. The journal was created on the basis of the Institute of Mongolian Studies, Buddhology and Tibetology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ulan-Ude) and is intended for those who are interested in- page 325interested in the past and present of the peoples of Eurasia. According to the creators, the magazine brings together historians, cultural scientists and anthropologists of various scientific schools and directions on its pages. Another advantage of the journal is that it publishes articles by leading foreign researchers, which allows the Russian-speaking reader to get acquainted with them. To the editorial Board of the journal, in addition to the staff of the Institute, headed by a corresponding member. RAS B. V. Bazarov, includes well-known Orientalists, religious scholars and anthropol ... Читать далее