An organizational group of the museum was formed, which was given the name of the Turkestan People's Museum on May 22, 1918 by the decision of the board of the Turkestan People's University. The museums were transferred to the jurisdiction of the People's Commissariat of Education of the Turk-Republic by the order of the Council of People's Commissars of the TurkASSR on May 31, 1918. The museum was reorganized into the Main Turkestan Museum in 1922, subordinate to Turkomstaris and was renamed the Main Central Asian Museum, subordinate to Sredazkomstaris in 1925. The Main Central Asian Museum took shape as the Regional Museum of Nature and Culture of Central Asia in the past and present, and, in connection with the liquidation of Sredazkomstaris, came under the jurisdiction of the People's Commissariat of Education of the Uzbekistan SSR in 1928.
Orders and instructions of the People's Commissariat for Education of the Turk ASSR, Turkomstaris and Sredazkomstaris, orders for the museum, Regulations on the Main Central Asian Museum.
Meeting protocols of the board of the Turkestan Folk Museum, council, board and departments of the Main Central Asian Museum; reports on the activities of the museum (1920-1928) and on the archaeological expeditions of M. E. Masson to the city of Turkestan and the village of Toy-Tube.
List of exhibits of the handwritten and negative funds of the museum; a brief historical sketch of the museum (1921).
