At the Department of Manuscripts and Documents the collected essays, Works Kept at the Archives of the Orientalists, Issue 1 [Труды Архива востоковедов. Выпуск первый], bd. by Dr I.F.Popova, will be discussed. The issue is dedicated to the memory of the Orientalists who worked at besieged Leningrad.

CONTENTS

A.N. Boldyrev (1909-1993). The Journal of day-to-day management and events at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of USSR [Журнал текущей работы и происшествий по Институту востоковедения Академии наук СССР]. Introduction and publication by I.K. Pavlova

Selected letters by A.Y.Borisov (1903-1942) to P.K.Kokovtsov (1861-1942) [Избранные письма А.Я.Борисова (1903—1942) к П.К.Коковцову (1861—1942)]. Introduction and publication by N.S.Smelova and E.O.Shuhman

Y.V. Bunakov (1908-1942). On the meaning of the so-called “literary revolution” in China [О значении так называемой литературной революции Китая]. Introduction and publication by I.F.Popova

A.N.Genko (1896-1941). On the transition of Adygei alphabet to Russian [О переводе адыгейского алфавита на русскую основу]. Introduction and publication by A.I.Aliyeva

A.V. Grebenshchikov (1880-1941). Code of Manchu Shamanic Rites [Устав шаманской службы маньчжуров]. Introduction and publication by T.A.Pang

P.P. Ivanov (1893-1942). Central Asia and Kazakhstan during the second half of the 18th century [Средняя Азия и Казахстан во второй половине XVIII в.]. Introduction and publication by E.I.Serova

V.N. Kazin (1907-1942). Graduate thesis "Yong-le da dian". The manuscript kept at the Library of Leningrad State University [«Юн-лэ да дянь». Рукопись библиотеки ЛГУ]. Introduction and publication by I.F.Popova

V.E. Krasnodembsky (1907-1942). The Veddas [Ведда]. Introduction and publication by E.V.Tanonova

V.P. Taranovich (1874-1941). About Literary Materials on Oriental Studies kept in the collections of Kazan [К вопросу о литературных материалах по востоковедению, хранящихся в учреждениях города Казани]. Introduction and publication by T.A.Pang

K.K. Flug (1893-1942). Chao Gong-wu and his bibliography "Zun zhai du shu zhi" [Чао Гун-у и его библиография «Цзюнь-чжай ду шу чжи»]. Introduction and publication by I.F.Popova

V.D.Yakimov (1904-1941). The Khubilgans [Хубилганы]. Introduction and publication by I.V.Kulganek

D.E. Bertels et al. The Institute of Oriental Studies in 1945 [Институт востоковедения в 1945 г.]. Introduction and publication by S.I.Marakhonova