Kazakhs in Russia information

of Russia, as well as northwestern China (specifically Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture) and western Mongolia (Bayan-Ölgii Province). The Kazakhs arose...

In Russia, the Kazakh population lives in the regions bordering Kazakhstan. The 2010 Russian census recorded 647,732 Kazakhs living mostly in the Astrakhan...

with Kalmyks (Oirats, Dzungars). Kazakhs were increasingly caught in the middle between the Kalmyks and the Russians. In 1730 Abul Khayr, one of the khans...

Kazakhs from the Kazakh Khanates. In the 19th century, the advance of the Russian Empire troops pushed the Kazakhs to neighboring countries. Russian settlers...

Population pyramids of ethnicities within Russia in the 2021 census Russians Bashkirs Tatars Chechens Ukrainians Kazakhs Kabardians Chuvash Avars Armenians Crimean...

The Kazakh Khanate (Kazakh: Қазақ Хандығы, Qazaq Handyğy), in eastern sources known as Ulus of the Kazakhs, Ulus of Jochi, Yurt of Urus, was a Kazakh state...

autonomous republic within the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. Before the Russian Revolution, Kazakhs in Russia were known as "Kirghiz-Kazaks"...

was used for the Kazakh language for Kazakhs in China during 1964–84. Later, the use of the Kazakh Arabic alphabet was restored in China. As part of...

part in Buddhist and Hinduist cultures, while Kazakhs were mostly Muslims. Although the ornament is considered to not be Kazakh, it still takes part in Kazakh...

in the Kazakh Khanate, which allowed Kazakhs to mix Persian words into their own spoken and written vernacular. Meanwhile, Arabic was used by Kazakhs...

Astrakhan in South-Western Russia. The Kazakhs of the neighboring regions of Volgograd and Kalmykia share history and culture with Astrakhan Kazakhs and are...

organisations. Russia's efforts to impose its system aroused the resentment of the Kazakhs, and, by the 1860s, some Kazakhs resisted its rule. Russia had disrupted...

of twenty-five members: ten positions reserved for non-Kazakhs and fifteen for ethnic Kazakhs. During their rule, the Alash Orda formed a special educational...

imposing a sense of inferiority by sending Kazakhs to highly élite Russian military institutions. In response, Kazakh religious leaders attempted to bring religious...

Iranian Kazakhs live mainly in the Golestān Province in Northern Iran. According to ethnologue.org, however, there were 3000 Kazakhs living in Iran in 1982...

Central Asians. Thousands of Kazakhs were killed, and thousands more fled to China and Mongolia. Many Kazakhs and Russians fought the Communist takeover...

matched by Russian reprisals, particularly against the nomadic population. To escape Russians slaughtering them in 1916, Uzbeks, Kazakhs and Kyrgyz escaped...

Kazakh diaspora (Kazakh: Қазақтар диаспорасы, romanized: Qazaqtar diasporasy, lit. 'Diaspora of Kazakhs') is a term used to collectively to describe the...

century, it was called the Kirghiz steppe, 'Kirghiz' being an old Russian word for the Kazakhs. The steppe extends more than 2,200 km (1,400 mi) from the east...

formation of the Kazakhs in the mid-15th century, the Kazakhs khans led both the unified Kazakh Khanate and later the three main Kazakh divisions. Khan...

Dzungaria (their historic homeland) in 1771, but were defeated by the Kazakhs. The first joint action by the Kazakh and Russian people against autocracy was...

group, the Kazakhs, comprise the majority of the population. As of 2024, ethnic Kazakhs are about 71% of the population and ethnic Russians in Kazakhstan...