The first volume covers the history of Tuva from ancient times to 1917. The second volume is entirely devoted to the history of the Tuvan people after the October period up to the beginning of the 60s of our century. The authors of the first volume had a very difficult and responsible task - to study and recreate the history of the Tuvan people, which did not have before the XX century. The Writings . [ Soviet historical science has already accumulated a great deal of experience in the study of the history of unwritten or young-written peoples ..... [Read more...] [ It has not only completely refuted the anti-scientific arguments of foreign bourgeois scientists about the absence of their own history among unwritten peoples....... on the division of peoples into historical and non-historical , but also practically developed methods and techniques for studying the history of such peoples , based on the involvement of a complex of different historical sources. Among the last , other than written sources in different languages , In which there are references to the studied nation , prominent role is given to archaeological monuments and diverse ethnographic materials, and folklore, toponymy, Ethnomics , Paleoanthropology and Linguistics .