On the contribution of immigrants from the Western, Central and Northern Europe in the scientific study of Russian Turkestan in the late XIX - early XX centuries

The article is devoted to the Europeans migrated to Turkestan in the late XIX - early XX centuries. It is shown that after the subjugation of Turkestan by the Russian Empire a network of educational institutions of the European model in which natives of Europe taught emerged in the region. The Europeans were an appreciable layer among Turkestani intelligentsia and made a considerable contribution to studying the Russian Turkestan and the formation of the humanities of the region