Kangorai Kyrgyz (the orthography and comparison of “Khyagas” and “Kyrgyz” ethnonyms)

The article provided the historical and graphical analysis of the studied problem in the contents of orthography and comparison of “Khyagas” and “Kyrgyz” ethnonyms. The author tried to define the data of Chinese chronicles on the aristocratic clan of Yenisei Kyrgyz that narrates: “Khagyas is not the great clan”. The author compared and analyzed the data of Chinese chronicles on the Khagyas State, “Khagyas Dynasty”, and the aristocratic clan “Khagyas” with the information about Kyrgyz, given by the Persian historian Gardezi who characterized them like six formation ethnos. The author tried to explain the historical sources contradictions in peculiarities of the nomad political system. The problems of ethnogeny and ethno genetic associations of Yenisei Kyrgyz and Minusin Tatars were studied. The author tried to prove that Yenisei Kyrgyz were named as Kangorai Kyrgyz bygone.