they memorized, and then on long winter evenings to the accompaniment of dombra, the exploits of dzhangra. the epic combined knowledge, ideas about the surrounding world, culture and traditions of many ancient nomadic peoples. this cauldron, the great steppe, where various nations were formed, is really, probably, such a melting pot, where new nations appear from different nations, for example, the kalmyks were formed from the western mongolians. ayirats literally in the 18th-18th century, that is, for historical science this is literally yesterday. if we talk about the ethnogenesis of the ayrats themselves, then various tribes of the middle ages and antiquity, who lived on the territory of modern altai, took part in the formation of this people. these are the iguns, these are the rouran, the syanbey and a number of other tribes that left their mark on history. however, in the epic itself , there are practically no historical realities left. storytellers combined times and legends in stanzas, turning them into a magical world that amazed anyone who heard the songs of the dzhangrch with it