Abstract
This article analyzes the narrative features of the first book of the documentary-historical narrative “Shyngys Khan” by Mukhtar Magauin from the perspective of narratology. The purpose of the study is to determine the genre nature of the work, the narrator’s position, the relationship between documentary and artistic elements, as well as the functions of focalization and chronotope. The narrative is based not only on the presentation of historical information, but also on its selection, comparison, interpretation, and evaluation. The narrator acts as a researcher guiding the reader’s historical perception. The use of the authorial “we,” rhetorical questions, argumentation, and comments on doubtful or lost information strengthens the metanarrative character of the text. The composition is structured not around a classical plot, but around the gradual disclosure of a historical problem. Documentary material, interpretation, and artistic devices form an integrated narrative structure. The study identifies the narrator’s functions as historian-documentarian, interpreter, evaluator, and storyteller. The macroplot reconstructs the civilizational, ethnic, and political space of the Genghis Khan era, while the microplots deepen the main idea of the work.