"Zar zaman (Time of Lament)" Flow in the Kazakh and Kyrgyz literature. Monograph (genesis, typology, poetics). The monograph observes and analyses literary works of Kazakh and Kyrgyz zar zaman poets in connection with events of epoch, aims and dreams of the nation. The issues of zar zaman origin, tendencies of its development, similarity with poetics of other nations, unity of poets' opinions, peculiarities of literary style are considered In the given scientific work.