Рассматриваются фольклорные и письменные сведения о загадочных племенах Якутии, исчезнувших после XVII в. Большое внимание уделяется этническим контактам между якутскими, тунгусскими и юкагирскими группами, наличию более древних этнических образований, участвовавших в формировании этих народов. Подчеркивается, что территория Якутии не была изолирована от соседних территорий, в ней можно обнаружить следы миграций древних этносов самодийского, монгольского и тюркского происхождения.
The article examines the folklore and written information about mysterious tribes of Yakutia who disappeared after the 17th century. Big attention is paid to the ethnic contacts between the Sakha, Tungus and Yukagir groups, to the availability of the more ancient ethnic formations which participated in forming of these peoples. It is emphasized that the territory of Yakutia was not isolated from neighboring territories. Here, one one can discover the traces of migrations of the ancient ethnoses of Samodian, Mongolian, Turkic origin.

Статья посвящена трактовке концепции о татарском происхождении народа саха. В её основе лежит анализ легенд о его прародителях Омогое и Эллэе и историография вопроса. В якутском фольклоре в качестве предков саха упоминаются Һтатаарыһ и человек по имени Татаар-тайма, который считается отцом Эллэя. В данной статье проанализированы сведения о центральноазиатских татарах, имеющиеся в древнетюркских рунических надписях, в китайских источниках династий Тан, Сун, Ляо, Цзинь. Одни ученые древности относят татар к могущественному племени, ранее доминировавшему в Центральной Азии. Другие относят центральноазиатских татар к тюркоязычным народам, имеющим свой отдельный язык. Современные ученые, изучив сведения рунических памятников и китайских источников различных династий, пришли к выводу, что в этногенезе буир-нурских татар принимали участие также хэйчэзцы-шивэй, т.е. тележные канглы и ираноязычные согдийцы - сог-по. Канглы в составе буир-нурских татар сопоставляются с кангаласцами среди саха. Индо-, ираноязычный компонент в составе саха, возможно, восходит к участию иранского компонента в этногенезе центральноазиатских татар.
The article is devoted to the interpretation of the concept of the Tatar origin of the Sakha people. This opinion is prompted by the analysis of the legends about the forefathers of the people Omogoe and Ellaei and the historiography of the question. In Yakut folklore, as the ancestors of Sakha are mentioned “Tataars” and a man named Tataar-taima, who is considered the father of Ellaei. This article analyzes information about the Central Asian Tatars found in the Ancient Turkic runic inscriptions, in the Chinese sources of the Tang, Song, Lyao, and Jin dynasties. In the writings of Rashid al-Din, they act as a mighty tribe that had previously dominated Central Asia. Mahmudal-Kashgari refers the Central Asian Tatars to the Turkic-speaking peoples who have their own language. S.G. Klyashtorny and Yu.A. Zuyev after studying the information of runic monuments and Chinese sources of different dynasties came to the conclusion that in the ethnogenesis of the Buir Nur Tatars took place also Heihez-Shiwei, i.e. cart Kanglies and Iranian-speaking Sogdians - sog-po. Kangly in the Buir Nura Tatars are compared with the Kangalas among the Sakha. Indo-, Iranian-speaking component in Sakha may be traced back to the participation of Iranian component in the ethnogenesis of the Central Asian Tatars. In the works of Abulgazi and Rashid-ad-Din there is news of the flight of the remains of Tatars to the Angara River. These messages are identified with the folklore sources of the sakha about the flight of people from the tribe “tataar”, defeated in the war against the people of “nuucha”. Proto-Yakutian Ust-Tal'kin archeological culture of the 12th - 14th centuries in the Southern Priangarie it is associated with the usutu-mangun tribe. The ethnonym Usutu-mangun is reconstructed as water Mongols. This tribe, according to European travelers, is identical to the tribe of the Tatars. The ethnonym of the Mongol was one of the ancient self-names of Sakha. In the Angara Tatars or Alakchin there was a Manga region, whose name is similar to the name of the Yakut ulus Mange. Folklore, linguistic, ethnographic and anthropological data testify to the common ancestors of Sakha and Buryat-Bulagat. This coincides with the conclusion of archaeologists that the Ust-Tal'kin culture simultaneously belongs to the Mongolian ancestors of the Buryats - the Bulagat tribe, and the Turkic-speaking Sakha ancestors.

In this paper we study the connection Yakut ethnography with Scythian-Siberian era in archeology of the Eurasian steppes. In favor of the hypothesis that the ethnic ties with Saha Scythian-Saka tribes are the conclusions of eminent anthropologists and archaeologists. The parallels between the Yakut culture and Scythian-Siberian era found mainly in material culture.