THE "PRAETORIANS" OF THE EAST: THE KIPCHAK ELITE IN EGYPT.

Annotation. Turkic culture and history in the modern world are undergoing a reassessment. This is due both to the increasing rethinking of one's identity and to a general spiritual uplift. The search for spiritual landmarks in the history of the medieval Turks in one way or another concerns our distant ancestors, who, by the will of fate, found themselves in a foreign land, but continued to remain faithful to their customs and culture. One of these landmarks was Sultan Beybarys, who became a symbol of loyalty to his customs and people. Ruling in a distant country, Beybarys, due to circumstances, tried to recreate a closed caste group united not only by profession, but also by kinship. The study of such groups, which have no analogues in the history of the Middle East, is an urgent task for the researcher, including the drawing of historical parallels will make it possible to better reconstruct events that took place at different times throughout the steppe belt of Eurasia. The Mamluks, as a dynasty of professional military, whose history ended only after the conquest of Egypt by Napoleon, attracted and for a long time will be in the focus of attention of the entire world community in general, and domestic academic circles in particular. Their successful struggle against the Mongols and Crusaders, as well as an effective management system, allowed Egypt to be recreated as an empire, controlling almost the entire eastern Mediterranean coast in the best periods.