Malyavkin, A. Historical Geography of Central Asia: Materials and Studies (Istoricheskaia geografiia Tsentral'noi Azii). 1981. In Russian.

Малявкин, Анатолий Гаврилович. Историческая география Центральной Азии : (материалы и исследования) / отв. ред. канд. экон. наук Ю.М. Бутин ; АН СССР, Сибирское отделение, Ин-т истории, филологии и философии.
Новосибирск : Наука, Сибирское отделение, 1981. 336 с. 22 см.
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Malyavkin, Anatoly. Historical Geography of Central Asia: Materials and Studies / ed. by Yu.M. Butin ; USSR Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Institute of History, Philology and Philosophy.
Novosibirsk : Nauka, Siberian Branch, 1981. 336 pp. 22 cm.
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Anatoly Gavrilovich Malyavkin (1921-2002) was a Soviet Sinologist and specialist in medieval Chinese historical sources on Central Asia, affiliated with the Institute of History, Philology and Philosophy of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk. This monograph is the first volume in his major series on Chinese sources for Central Asian history, followed by Uighur States in the 9th-12th Centuries (1983) and Tang Chronicles on the States of Central Asia (1989). The volume presents Russian translations of the geographical chapters of the Tang dynasty historical compilations dealing with Central Asia - specifically, the geographic chapters of the Jiu Tang shu (Old History of the Tang, compiled 945 CE) and the Xin Tang shu (New History of the Tang, compiled 1060 CE) devoted to the Tang provincial administrative units of Guannei, Hsi (Hexi corridor), Longyou, and the western borderlands - with an extensive commentary reconstructing the ethnic geography and administrative divisions of the Central Asian region in the 7th-8th centuries. A large part of the material introduced into scholarly circulation in this volume had not previously been translated into any European language. The commentary (pages 67-280) is the core scholarly contribution, providing systematic identification of the peoples, geographical names, and tribal confederations recorded in these sources, with detailed notes on the Turkic, Sogdian, Tibetan, and other groups who inhabited the Tarim Basin, Jungaria, and the eastern Eurasian steppe during the Tang period. Supplementary indexes include a glossary of Turkic, Latin, and other terms found in the commentary. The study has been consistently cited in subsequent scholarship on Tang dynasty expansion into Central Asia, the Silk Road peoples, and Uyghur early history.