title: ON THE ETHNIC AFFILIATIONS AND CONNECTIONS OF THE TWIN TRIBES UTIGURS AND KUTRIGURS
abstract: Utigurs and Kutrigurs were two tribes associated with each other, living respectively in the eastern and northern shores of the Sea Azov. They appeared with their clear names in the mid- 6th century only for a few decades. After that, the Utigurs disappeared from the sources, although there are no accounts about what happened to them, and traces of the Kutrigurs, who faced great calamities that affected even their existential capacities according to the sources, can be found only in some ethnic 
journal: Karadeniz Araştırmaları