Аннотация
The first historical sound recordings of the Turkic-speaking peoples, which are of significant historical, cultural and scientific value, are kept separately in various foreign archives and have not received a complete and comprehensive study. This article provides an overview of archival materials and information about the sound collections of the music of Turkic-speaking prisoners-of war, kept in the Vienna Phonogram Collections of the Archives of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The materials were prepared by the author during a scientific trip to the Vienna Phonogram Archive in 2019, as part of a scientific project of the International Organization of Turkic Culture TURKSOY.