Massovyj golod 1808 g. v Mladshem zhuze i perekhod kazahov na pravoberezh'e Urala

Abstract

This article examines the events in the Younger Zhuz bordering with Russia, when a terrible famine began at the beginning of the 19th century. The famine was caused by the reduction of pasture lands and tsarism banned the Kazakhs from wandering on the right bank of the Irtysh. On May 23, 1808, two royal decrees were issued, according to which the transition of the adult Kazakhs and their children to the inner part of the Russian Empire was regulated. Then the lives of tens thousands of residents of the Younger Zhuz were saved. The article is written on the basis of rare archival materials extracted mainly from the Orenburg State Archive.