On the border area between Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, there was the burial ground of Kazybaba I, which is currently the largest of the completely excavated early nomadic burial grounds (from Sauromatian to late Sarmatian time) on the territory of Ustyurt. The remarkable archaeologist Vadim Nikolaevich Yagodin was engaged in excavations of the monument in 1988-1990. As a result of these works, significant archaeological and anthropological material was gathered, which Vadim Nikolayevich did not have time to bring into academic circulation.Another generation of researchers - E. P. Kitov, A. M. Mamedov and K .A. Zhambulatov studied the material from the necropolis stored in the Department of Archaeology at the Institute of Humanities, Karakalpak Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, which resulted in the monograph Steppe Tribes on the North-Western Borders of Khorezm from the 6th-2nd Centuries BCE to the 2nd-4th centuries AD (Based on Materials from the Burial Mound of Kazybaba I) published on the basis of the achievements of Vadim Nikolayevich and with the financial support of the International Institute for Central Asian Studies. The significant period between the study of the site and the publication of the monograph made it possible for the authors to more fully analyse the available material against the backdrop of the Sauromatian-Sarmatian monuments in the arid zone of Eurasia.

The publication was made by International Institute for Central Asian Studies under the 2022 ACC-MOWCAP (the Asia Culture Center and UNESCO Memory of the World Committee for the Asia-Pacific) Small Grants Programme. The publication is addressed to specialists, university students and a wide range of readers interested in the cultural heritage of the Silk Roads.

The book tells in an interesting and accessible form about the evolution and regularities in the development of the architecture in the Bukhara oasis and the city of Bukhara during its heyday in the 15th -17th centuries, reveals its artistic, typological, constructive and local features, as well as mutual influences between the Bukharan architecture and the architecture in other regions of Central Asia and the Middle East. This is the first work presenting a number of poorly studied structures and new data, as well as analytical tables, where the author systematizes the typological, constructive and decorative features of architecture in the oasis. The contents of the text are illustrated by more than 300 images and drawings, which include some rare and historical and archival materials, as well as those that have never been first published before.

The book "MADE IN USSR" analyzes the problems of family and the phenomenon of interethnic marriages, which is largely due to the ideological policy of internationalism of the country. Following the chronology, the real stories of the emergence of "Russian Turkestans" in Samarkand, the creation of intercultural marriages during the "korenization", the arrival of the "front" and soldiers' wives in the city. The life and marriages of mestizos of two or three generations in interethnic families (Uzbeks, Tajiks, Koreans, Crimean Tatars) are traced. The book is built on "interviews" by children or grandchildren, who not only preserved the "love story of their grandfather and grandmother," but also provided an extensive photo archive of their multinational family.

The book tells in an interesting and accessible form about the evolution and regularities in the development of the architecture in the Bukhara oasis and the city of Bukhara during its heyday in the 15th -17th centuries, reveals its artistic, typological, constructive and local features, as well as mutual influences between the Bukharan architecture and the architecture in other regions of Central Asia and the Middle East. This is the first work presenting a number of poorly studied structures and new data, as well as analytical tables, where the author systematizes the typological, constructive and decorative features of architecture in the oasis. The contents of the text are illustrated by more than 300 images and drawings, which include some rare and historical and archival materials, as well as those that have never been first published before.