The article dwells on the series of issues devoted to the art of the Tajik people prepared and published by the department of history under the Institute of History and Ethnography named after A. Donish attached to the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan; their role in the studies of the culture of Tajikistan being canvassed. It is marked that since the first years of the foundation of the department its officers got down to the edition of works dealing with musical, theatrical, decorative-applied and other sorts of the art of the Tajik people, both modern and pre-revolutionary ones. Since 1956 and up to 1979 there were published four issues of «The Art of the Tajik Nation» containingthe articles written on the basis of the materials of the expeditions engaged in art studies. Further on the Institute published the issues «Musical Life of Tajikistan» and «Chronicles of the Arts of Tajikistan». These editions contain chronicles and bibliography of musical, visual, architectural and cinematographical arts.
Key words: department of art history, art of the Tajik people, art history expeditions, “Chronicle of the Arts of Tajikistan”,musicallife
1. The Bouquet from the Firmament Flower-Bed // Compiler and Editor: F. Odina. – Dushanbe, 2004. – 96 pp.
2. The History of the Tajik Nation. – Issue 1. – Stalinabad, 1956
3. Ibidem. – Issue 2. – 1960
4. Ibidem. – Issue 3. – Dushanbe: Knowledge, 1965
5. Ibidem. – Issue 4. – Dushanbe: Knowledge, 1979
6. Chronicles of the Arts of Tajikistan. - Dushanbe: Knowledge, 2017. – p. 5
7. Masov R. The Headquarters of the Historical Science // The Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography named after A. Donish under Tajikistan Republic Academy of Sciences. 60 Years. – Dushanbe, 2014. – pp. 163
8. Musical Life of Soviet Tajikistan. – Issue 1. - Dushanbe: Knowledge, 1974. – 174 pp.
9. Ibidem. – Issue 2. 1975. – 162 pp.
10. Ibidem. – Issue 3. 2011. – 20 pp.
11. Ibidem. – Issue 4. – 192 pp.
12. Ibidem. – Issue 6. 2018. – 214 pp.
13. Nurdjanov N. Theatrical and Musical Life of Samanids` State Capital (the XIX-th – the XX-th Centuries). – Dushanbe, 2001. – 291 pp.
14. Nurdjanov N., Karomatov F., Kabilova B. Musical Art of Pamirs. – Bishkek, 2010. -–Books 1, 2, 3
15. Nurdjanov N., Kabilova B. Musical Art of Pamirs. – Bishkek, 2014. – Books 4, 5
16. Nurdjanov N., Kabilova B. Mavrighi. – Dushanbe, 2008. – 550 pp.
17. «Falak» (Firmament) and Artistic Traditions of Central Asia Peoples // Materials of the International Symposium (Dushanbe, 26-28 March). – Dushanbe, 2004. – 220 pp.