Sughd achieves the greatest efflorescence of economy, commerce and civilization in Early Middle Ages. It was promoted, first of all, by the great Trans-Asian Silk Road, which connected all the peoples and regions of the East into unified knot socially-economically and culturally-anthropologically...

Throughout the millennia Sughdians elaborated the rich heathen pre-religious secular spirituality of their own. Its origin is traced back to the universal Aryan world of cognition of the surrounding nature in the epochs of the Neolithic, Eneolithic and Bronze Ages (VI-II millennia B.C)-that of the Aryan proto-motherland...

We shall make a reservation at once that under the title of this miniature/mean multiple collections of the Sughdian antiquities - the monuments of archeology, ethnology, philology, the entire culture and civilization of Sughd kept now in the museums and funds of the State Hermitage and other centers of Russia...

Dear “Varorud” reader! At last, the time came to tell about the group of Aryan languages in this “Sughdology” miniature; the Sughdian language will be dwelt on in particulars being a key theme of common Indo-European kinship of a considerable part of the population which inhabited the ancientest and ancient Eurasia...

The Great Silk Road framed on the basis of local and regional ways of exchange and contacts of the ancientest and ancient human communities, tribes, later on nations of respective historical-cultural areas and countries of the Asian continent in the period of IV-I millennia B.C...

The balloon of Aryans with the complex of intellectual values of great treasuries of “Avesta”, “Vedas”, “Budakhishna” with the concentration of multiple scientific themes and problems of cultural-anthropological researches of the scientists from many countries of the world during the last three centuries of the second millenium A.D, beginning with Anketil Duperron and ending with V. V. Struve, Mary Boys and Frants Grene, has been soaring...

Sughdian civilization is a unique phenomenon of internal self-evolution and international integration in world history and of bilateral interaction and territorially multilateral trend into the bargain...

Sughd and Sughdians as one of the most vigorous historic-geographical parts of the Asian continent, have their own, practically incessant history, rich and striking outcome on the level of supreme world civilizations...

Tajiks consider themselves to be direct descendants of ancient Sughdians, but not all of them know what spaces were embraced by the boundaries of this people, how its culture was forming, how a long way of creation of its statehood was moulding...