• Ориенталистика
• 2023 год
• Vol 6, № 3-4

The article is devoted to the formation of artillery in the khanates of Central Asia in the period of the middle of the 18th – early 20th centuries. The references to cannons and the development of artillery and auxiliary industries in the Khiva and Kokand khanates, as well as in the Emirate of Bukhara, according to written sources from the since the beginning of the 18th century, have been studied. The memoirs of officers of the Russian Empire about the use of artillery in the armies of the khanates of Central Asia are analyzed.

• Khanates of Central Asia
• artillery
• cannon
• zamburek
• kitajcha
• falconet
• unicorn

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