ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF KULOB BY RUSSIAN RESEARCHERS OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
In the article the author notes the features of the study by Russian scientists who have contributed to the study and coverage of the history and ethnography of Kulyab in the first half of the twentieth century. The author pays special attention to the complex historical and ethnographic expedition organized by the staff of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan in the period 1947-1949, during which the historically important objects of the Kulyab zone were investigated. Special interest are the types of crafts and crafts recorded by the expedition of the population of the Kulyab region. Among them, the author pays attention to the nature of craft practices of various ethnic minorities and groups as the Baluchis, the Arabs, Hazara, kouchini, batashi, Kungrat, tabulate who did not have the propensity for embroidering the embroidery Karluk women previously were not involved at all, and learned this art from lakai women living in the territory of Kulyab.