RUSSIAN TURKOLOGY AND HERITAGE OF A.E.KRIMSKY (TURN OF THE XIX - XX CENTURIES)
The relevance of the research is emphasized by the need to study the history of development of Turkology in the modern world. This involves assessing achievements of Russian and European Orientalists of the 19th and 20thcenturies. The purpose of the article is to give an overview of the Turkological heritage of A.E.Krimskyand, to assess his contribution to the Russian and Ukrainian Oriental Studies. The main results of the research are in the systematic description of his works on Turkology. The focus is on a variety of materials written during his work in the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages in the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. The scholarly areas of his Turkological studies have also been researched. The information from this article may be useful for the study of the history of World Turkic studies, teaching languages, history, literature and culture of the Turkic peoples.