On October 11, 2011, when supporters of the Eurasian idea of unity of Turkic, Mongolian, Slavic and other peoples in the former Russian Empire and fans of the scientific work of the famous Russian scientist L. N. Gumilyov celebrated the 99th anniversary of his birth, the Eurasian National University, located in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana, held the VIII International Scientific Forum of the Russian Academy of Sciences. forum "Scientific creativity of L. N. Gumilyov and the history of the peoples of Eurasia: modern approaches and prospects", dedicated to the 20th anniversary of independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The plenary session was opened by the report of the Rector of the Eurasian National University (hereinafter - ENU) E. B. Sadykov "L. N. Gumilyov's legacy and Eurasianism". The speaker noted that L. N. Gumilyov's scientific heritage in the field of Eurasian ideas is not only studied, but also developed at the university. The L. N. Gumilyov Museum has been opened, which presents the difficult life path of the scientist, the son of the outstanding Russian poets Nikolai Gumilyov and Anna Akhmatova; a specialized department is open, and courses of lectures on the study of Eurasianism are given, including "Eurasianism-theory and practice". "Eurasian studies", the speaker noted, should become the basis of the ideology of uniting the peoples of Eurasia. 2012 will mark the 100th anniversary of L. N. Gumilyov, the founder of modern Eurasian ideas, for which the university is carefully preparing.

G. M. Shaliakhmetov's presentation "The Future of Eurasia" was devoted to substantiating the need for further development of the idea of passionarity in modern conditions. According to the speaker, new ethnic groups arise as a result of outbreaks of ethnic activity, thanks to the activities of" people of long will " or prophets. As an example, he gave some information about the spread of world proselytizing religions on the Eurasian continent at the turn of our era. The speaker recalled that the initiative to develop the ideas of Eurasianism was put forward by the President of Kazakhstan N. A. Nazarbayev, who in 1994 gave a lecture on Eurasianism at Moscow State University. Currently, this idea is supported by Vladimir Putin, who published his article "Integration project Eurasia - the Future is born Today" in the Izvestia newspaper.

Famous Kazakh historian, Honorary Professor of the University of Göttingen, Head of the Department of World History of the Kazakh National University K. T. Zhumagulov (Kazakhstan) made a report "The Battle of Catalaun in the plots of Eurasian history". He offered his own rather unorthodox assessment of the significance of the famous battle in 451 on the Catalaunian fields in Gaul between the troops of the Roman general Aetius and his allies against the Hunnic army led by King Attila. According to the speaker, it was an "epochal battle", which is very directly related to the history of Kazakhstan, since "the Huns are proto-Turks". He noted that L. N. Gumilev was very scrupulously engaged in the history of the Huns. The European sources on the Huns and Attila studied by the author of the report contain biased assessments of this nomadic people and their leader. Attila - "Koenig Etzel" of European sources is called "the scourge of God", "the hammer of the universe" and other frightening epithets. The speaker pointed out some images of Attila in European art, among which he highlighted the bas-relief depicting the Hun leader in the Vatican. According to the speaker, the military affairs of the Huns deserve special attention. In the Battle of Catalaunum, as he put it, " the Huns were confronted by the forces of the entire Western world: the West-

ancient Romans, Visigoths, and other Germanic and Celtic tribes." According to K. T. Zhumagulov, the Huns acted as" saviors " of pagan Europe from the Christian Roman Empire. Despite such anti-Christian aspirations, Attila "respected the authority of Pope Leo I the Great", so he did not take and destroy Rome, as the vandal king Geyserich did a few years later. Some of the speaker's opinions are quite controversial.

Documentary filmmaker E. E. Dilmukhammedova (Kazakhstan) told about her meetings and farewell to L. N. Gumilev and showed fragments from her films about this scientist. Poetess, member of the Writers 'Union of Kazakhstan T. P. Frolovskaya (Kazakhstan) made a report "Lev Gumilev is our interlocutor". According to her, L. N. Gumilyov "transferred history to the category of natural sciences", and ethnography "elevated to ethnology". The poetess spoke about her book "The Eurasian Lion", dedicated to the life and scientific work of L. N. Gumilyov. The creator of the L. N. Gumilyov Memorial Museum-Apartment, M. G. Kozyreva (Russia), in her report "The Birth of a Scientist: L. N. Gumilyov in correspondence with his school teacher A. M. Pereslegin", spoke about L. N. Gumilyov's childhood years spent in Vishera, about his studies at school, and about the influence on interest in the history of his work. school teacher and subsequent correspondence with him. A.V. Bondarev, a lecturer at the Russian State Pedagogical University named after A. I. Herzen (Russia), presented to the audience a report on "Conceptual ideas of L. A. Shishkin". N. Gumilyov: Origins and Evolution", dedicated to the formation of a scientist's views in the process of scientific activity, work as part of a scientific expedition led by A. P. Okladnikov on Angara, an expedition to the Lower Volga region in search of the Khazar capital of Itil, organized on the initiative of M. I. Artamonov.

S. V. Seliverstov, an employee of the Institute of History of the State Committee for Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, presented the report "Eurasianism in the XXI century: on the results of an international expert study". He presented the results of a sociological expert project, which included a survey of experts and specialists on contemporary political issues. The survey included 50 specialists from 16 countries, including France, Germany, Turkey, Korea, Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Some experts were allowed to use personal data about themselves. Half of the experts named S. N. Trubetskoy and other Russian emigrants as the founder of Eurasianism, while the other half named L. N. Gumilyov. Among modern politicians, the author of the idea is most often called by experts the President of Kazakhstan N. A. Nazarbayev. The speaker referred to the extent to which the ideas of Eurasianism reflect the interests of the peoples of Central Asia.

In the future, the work of the Eurasian Forum was divided into two sections.

The section "Historical destinies of the Eurasian peoples: civilizations, cultures, ethnoses, contacts, interaction" presented reports on the archeology and ethnography of ancient and medieval nomadic and modern Turkic peoples of the Urals, Kazakhstan, Sayan-Altai and Central Asia. Kazakh archaeologist Z. Samashev (Kazakhstan) presented to the audience the results of his excavations of the Berel burial ground, located in Eastern Kazakhstan, which were started in the middle of the XIX century. V. V. Radlov. Report " Berel in the context of ethno-cultural processes in Central Asia in the second half-end of the 1st millennium BC " BC" contained information about excavated burial mounds, finds and reconstruction of funeral rites. According to the speaker, the need to extract mineral ores and manufacture metal products has led to the emergence of special, social and professional groups within the Pazyryk society, such as artisans and slaves. This society had a heterogeneous structure with pronounced property differentiation. Within the framework of the" Pazyryk cultural community", the speaker identified the Bashadar, Pazyryk and Berel" nomad alliances " that coexisted and at different times dominated this community. Berel dates from the fourth century. B.C., and Pazyryk - IV-III centuries B.C. Any traces of "Saka migrants" on the territory of Altai are currently not traced.

Dilmukhammedova also made a report " Forgotten heritage (about the Issyk plaque and ossuaries with crosses)", in which she spoke about the long-standing finds of plaques with the image of a winged lion or bull with the head of a bearded man in a crown in the Issyk region. This is an image of the mythological character of ancient Iranian mythology Gopat Shah "bull king". According to the speaker, this character was borrowed from the mythology of the Hittites and other ancient peoples of the Middle East, where he is represented in the image of a winged lion. Ossuaries depicting crosses from the Nukus Museum must date back to the fifth century AD. They may belong to Nestorian Christians, on which the Persian king Shapur II of the Sassanid dynasty in the IV century.

he imposed a double tax, since they did not serve in the Persian army. This contributed to the migration of Nestorians to the east.

Ethnographer R. R. Bayazitova (Russia) in her report "Prescriptions and prohibitions of Bashkirs related to the road" assessed the significance of these prescriptions as related to the wish for a successful path. According to one of these prescriptions, the most successful time of day for departure is in the morning. Archaeologist A.M. Dosymbaeva (Kazakhstan) in her report "Western Turks - the way to Europe" spoke about the discovery of new Turkic memorial monuments in the vicinity of Astana and presented the results of studying stone sculptures at the Merke monument complex. A special feature of the culture of the Western Turks is a significant number of female sculptures. Of the 76 statues in Merka, 38 are female. The author of the report separately focused on the description of one female statue with a pointed head and female breasts. 38 statues were recorded at the Zhaisan monument complex. On the rocks in these areas there are petroglyphs and images of Tamga signs of the Western Turks.

The report of Yu. S. Khudyakov (Russia) "Main trends in the development of weapons and military art of the ancient Turks of Central Asia in the early Middle Ages" was devoted to the analysis of changes in the complex of military means and methods of using different types of weapons by Turkic warriors in the conditions of remote and close combat during the main stages of the existence of the culture of the ancient Turks during the second half of 1- th millennium AD.

K. I. Iskakova (Kazakhstan) in her report "The role of the Huns in the history of Eurasia" emphasized the importance of the topic of studying the Huns for the history of Eurasia and complained that few people in Kazakhstan are engaged in this topic. She tried to comment on an article by Barbara Olszanski from Hungary, in which she was particularly attracted by the fact that the Huns are not rated as barbarians in this article. The speaker believes that the Huns played a "progressive role" in the history of Eurasia.

The report of R. M. Mustafina (Kazakhstan)" Interaction of cultures, civilizations, religions: from the past to the future "contained information about the forum of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, of which the Republic of Kazakhstan is a member, held in Astana.

Forum participants were able to take part in the discussion of the new exposition of the L. N. Gumilyov Museum, which is planned to be created for the 100th anniversary of the scientist, and attend an amateur concert of the ENU Student Philharmonic.

The Scientific Forum, which turned out to be Kazakh-Russian in terms of its participants, became a significant event in the scientific life of Kazakhstan.

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