"Siberian Khatru" (/saɪˈbɪəriən xæˈtruː/)[3] is the third song on the album Close to the Edge by English progressive rock band Yes.
Multiple performances of the song are included on the 2015 boxed-set Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two, which features seven complete consecutive concerts recorded on the band's late 1972 North American tour.
"It has everything: riffs, themes, bridges and an unusual middle eight, big Stravinsky-like orchestral stabs", guitarist Steve Howe later wrote.
"It became my most rejuvenated solo," he wrote in 2021, "as I've enjoyed exploring the infinite possibilities over the thematic two 54 bar structure.
Jon had the rough idea of the song, and Chris [Squire], Bill [Bruford], Rick and me would collaborate on getting the riffs together.”[5] Paul Stump, in his 1997 History of Progressive Rock, described the song as "a modal monster, chilled by [Rick] Wakeman's terrifying Mellotron strings, charging on in irregular tempo to a series of climactic barbarian chants interspersed with lightning twelve-string soloing from [Steve] Howe.