The Policy of the Provincial Authorities of the Southern Urals in Relations with the Kazakh Population in Late Imperial Russia (1911—1916)

Abstract

This article is devoted to the policy of the provincial authorities of late imperial Russia in the southern Urals in relation to the Kazakh population, its acculturation, using the example of four main aspects of interaction, namely education, health, cattle breeding, as well as agriculture, which appeared among the nomads under the influence of the Russian population. The policy of incorporation or acculturation of the nomadic Kazakh population was necessary to ensure stability in the multi-confessional and multicultural regions of the country, such as the southern Urals and the Volga region. This policy especially affected the formation of the education system in the 19th century, but only from the second half of it became systemic. This allowed the formation of the Kazakh intelligentsia. As for health care in the region, it can be said that the local authorities saw their main task as fighting epidemics, which they successfully coped with. In the field of agriculture and cattle breeding, attempts by the authorities to influence the nomadic population have been manifested since the second half of the 19th century, but only in 1911—1912 the policy in these industries became systematic and effective.