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Valuable artifacts from the Amir Temir period in the mausoleum of Khoja AkhmetYassawi are as valuable as the names of the masters who made them, the identity of the customer inthe person of Amir Temir and the date of their creation. The article analyzes one of such uniqueworks – the door of the tomb of Khoja Akhmet Yassawi and its door knockers. In addition toexcerpts from the inscriptions on the doors and frames of the tomb and translations of hadith andwords of wisdom, the general characteristics of the tomb door are examined.Along with articles about the lost door knockers on the cemetery doors, images of doorknockers stored in the Hermitage and the inscriptions on them are analyzed. Researches of scientistson inscriptions in door knockers are compared and analyzed. The authors pay attention to the factthat the inscriptions on the door knockers and portal doors of the mausoleum are the same.Gurkhana door knockers in research are given under various names, the word door knockers aretaken conditionally. B. Tuyakbayeva, M. Tuyakbaev, A. Ivanov in their scientific works use theterm “Balgasha” (hammer), A. Muminov, M. Kozha write “Tokyldaksha” (knocker) in theirarticles, Mirzhakyp Dulatov took the word “bolat tutka” (steel handle), the authors of the book“Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmet Yassawi” used the term “Alka” (medallion).In addition to V.I. Kesaev's photograph and A. Gurzhienko's pencil drawing, which in 1959claimed that the lost hammer was preserved, images of lost door knockers from found works,scientific reports of 1947, 1949 are also described. The article offers a number of proposals and apeculiar concept.