Abstract

Institutions such as madrasa, school, mosque, tekke, caravanserai, inns and the information and documents formed by these institutions are important in terms of lighting XVI-XIX. century in Turkmen history. Foundations that provide the administration of these institutions, especially those related to education, have a separate prescription. However, at the beginning of the Soviet Union period after the invasion of the Tsarist Russia Empire in the Turkmen lands, the foundations were closed and naturally the foundation-related institutions went through failure. One of the researchers engaged in serious scientific investigations by collecting the documents related to foundations and content documents was the Russian orientalist İ.G. Karpov. In his work, Karpov mentions foundation documents, the contents of the documents, the service areas of the foundation, and the reasons for the dedication of the goods. Accordingly, it is important for the mentioned work to be brought to the surface of the day, to understand the meanings of the Turkmen, to appreciate the value they give, and to shed light on the historical events of the period. In this study it has been tried to make a general evaluation about archive documents and foundation institutions in Soviet Turkmenistan by starting from the work of Karpov.

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