The collection is dedicated to the memory of the outstanding historian, ethnographer and archaeologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Prof. G. E. Markova. The breadth of his scientific interests was unprecedented: from the history of primitive society to the history of religions, from the ethnography of Asia (Western, Central, Eastern, South-Eastern) to the ethnography and archeology of the Turkic population of Western Siberia, from the history of material culture to the history of German ethnology and German folk studies. G. E. Markov stood at the origins of a new scientific direction in ethnology - nomadology (nomadic studies) and was the author of the original theory of socio-economic relations in nomadic societies. These theoretical discoveries became a true scientific revolution in Russian ethnology. Another problem-thematic section of the collection is dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, which were widely celebrated in 2017.