‘Relics of the Pre-Moslem Beliefs and Rites of the Uzbek People of Khorasan’ is a book by Soviet specialist in religious and Oriental studies G.P. Snesarev based on the data of his “purposeful and systematic” expeditions to the Central Asia in 1954—1961. The aim of the research was studying the beliefs and cults of the Pre-Moslem Khoresm, particularly, and the Central Asia, in general. According to S., ethnographic studies of Khoresm surpassed the local importance of the topic. “Because of its historical destiny, and its geographic location”, Khoresm was rather perspective for the solving of such research problem, as the identification the motherland of Zoroastrism, and other Pre-Moslem beliefs. In the course of the research, the author made an attempt, from one hand, “to sum up the relic phenomena which could be more or less obviously connected to Zoroastrism”, from the other hand, to organize the deep studying of “the stadially earlier religious beliefs (Animism, Fetishism, Totemism, Magic, the cult of nature, the cult of ancestors)”; as a result, the author succeeded to show, that the Uzbek people of the Southern Khoresm, and of the adjacent regions of the Karakalpak land, and Turkmenistan kept some fragments of relic beliefs, “the genetic connection of which ones to the Pre-Moslem beliefs was unquestionable’. At that, he made a conclusion, that it would not be possible to ascribe specific phenomena to Zoroastrism or to some earlier beliefs. He also made a conclusion about the role of Islam in the region: in spite of its “great role in the cultural life of an oasis”, there were no reasons to overestimate its significance. Having mixed with relic ancient beliefs, Islam got “syncretic forms” in the Aral Region, saturated with old local elements, highly resistant in the common daily life.