Izucheniya tyurkskoy klassicheskoy literatury v rossiyskom vostokovedenii XX veka s davnikh por nakhoditsya v tsentre vnimaniya uchenykh-filologov, no nesmotrya na dolguyu istoriyu sushchestvovaniya, ogromnoe raznoobrazie tochek zreniya i podkhodov k resheniyu, vopros po-prezhnemu ostaetsya otkrytym. Sbornik posvyashchen izucheniyu dannoy problemy na osnove editsionno-literaturnogo myshleniya. Ob"ektom issledovaniya posluzhili materialy, rukopisi khranyashchiesya v arkhivakh Rossii, osobenno v Sankt-Peterburge, izdannye knigi po istorii i teorii uzbekskoy klassicheskoy literatury v russkom literaturovedenii XX veka. Materialy sbornika, bibliograficheskie dannye mogut byt' shiroko ispol'zovany vsemi interesuyushchimisya poeziey Alishera Navoi, Babura i drugikh klassikov tyurkskogo mira. Kazhdaya zasluga rossiyskikh tyurkologov, kotoraya stala ob"ektom nauchnogo analiza dlya nashikh issledovaniy zasluzhivaet bol'shego. Ob"em izdannykh i neizdannykh statey po tyurkskoy literature svidetel'stvuyut o sbore i analize tsennykh svedeniy imeyushchikh vazhnoe znachenie dlya nauki.