this symphonic march lasts approximately five minutes. it is a very conventional work by ippolitov-ivanov, and therefore, all harmonies and rhythms are conventional. he wrote this composition as a part of his own research for turkish, uzbek and kazakh folk music in its later years, and two years after composing his turkish fragments, which, indeed, recreate the same atmosphere with turkish melodies and rhythms. he died three years afterwards, and this march is one of his last works.