BASES OF HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL UNITY OF THE SLAVIC AND TURKIC PEOPLES IN RUSSIA AND CENTRAL ASIA

Modern data show that the second half of the first millennium is a period of great importance for aholistic understanding of the history of Central Asia and adjacent territories. At this time, a new communityof nomads was formed, which became the core of one of the largest empires of the early Middle Ages — theFirst Turkic Khaganate. In the subsequent time, the scale of this political formation, which went far beyondthe Central Asian region, determined the dialogue of the Turks with the Slavic peoples and their commonfate on the territory of Eurasia.