Nomadic empires of Central Asia: the unfinished discussion

In the article an overview of nomadic empires researches in Russian historiography in given and criteria of this term in modern Russian investigations are discussed. The author also analyses main approaches to description and typology of nomadic empires. Difficulties of the definition of the peculiarities of governmental institutions in nomadic empires of the Central Asia are depicted. Due to this fact different methods of study of individual subsystems of State authority and political traditions (archaic, chief, state) of nomads are proposed. Finally the author analyses two working models of nomadic empires (pre-state and state) and points out main trends of future researches of empire unions (имперских объединений) of nomads.