Yulia Guzhvenko
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According archival sources, Kazakhs and Russian had interacted on territory of Eastern Kazakhstan since XVIII century. Local Kazakh clans officially recognized Russian authority in XIX. In early Soviet times (1920-25) this area was divided politically and administratively - thus, Eastern Kazakhstan constituted the northern belt of the Kazakh ASSR -newly-established national unit, later upgraded to full-formatted "union republic".
The demarcation of Central Asia by Bolsheviks in 1920s caused serious problems, which became explicit since independence boom in early 1990s. The territories which contained considerable Russian population get composed areas of new socialist republics. Meantime, their key laws ("About formation of Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic", etc) didn't take into account the factor of sizeable Russian population in northeast part of Kazakhstan.
The Stalinist politics of deportation of the whole ethnical groups during Great Patriotic War, the industrialization of Central Asian borderlands of Soviet Union, Virgin soil campaign were the summoning reasons of migration to Eastern Kazakhstan from European Russia and Siberia along 1930s-50s. As a result of ethnical migration to Eastern Kazakhstan since 1926 till 1970 the Russian population increased here in 2, 5 times, meanwhile the Kazakhs decreased in 7, 6 times because of negative natural and migration growth. But the situation changed in late Soviet times, when the number of population had primarily depended from natural growth. Thus, in 1970-1979 the Kazakh population increased from 32,6 to 38,7 percent in Eastern Kazakhstan. At the same time the number of non-titular nations (particularly the Russians) progressively decreased. Nevertheless, according to 1989 census the number of Kazakhs in Eastern Kazakhstan was 38,7%, Russians -
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