ABSTRACT
The territory of Southern Siberia – the present Republics of Khakassia, Gorny Altai and Tuva – are united in a common historical-cultural region of the Sayan-Altaisk upland. Some musical instruments (small tambourines made of two bent horn plates and a stringed harp) were found together with well-preserved items of everyday life in some Pazyryksk burial mounds. But the cult and secular musical instruments of the Sayan-Altai Turks that have analogues in the culture of the peoples of Central, Middle and Southern Asia are preserved till today. In authors opinion, there is some similarity in the name and structure of wind-instruments of a flute group: choor (Kyrgyz), shoor (Khakas, Altai, Tuvinian), tsuur (Mongolian), sur (Buryat), bansuri (Hindi). There was long fruitful trade and cultural cooperation among the peoples of Southern Siberia, Central Asia and India. Further research of these and other problems of culture and art may lead to more interesting results and promote discovering more valuable, still unknown facts.
