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This article is devoted to proverbs used as epic formulas in typical places of heroic legends of the Altai. In the study of Turkic language such theme is insufficiently explored. The author resorts to excerption and thorough analysis of the fund of proverbs of the Altaic epos. In this work, themes of proverbs, their presence in one or the other typical place, their syntactical structure, manners of modifying (lexico-grammatical and semantic), as well as parallels in epos of the other Turkic peoples are brought to light. Statement of the question about connection of the proverb