Features of the population settlement system in East Kazakhstan region in the late XIX–XX centuries: An ethnodemographic perspective

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The relevance of this study stems from the need for a long-term retrospective analysis of settlement patterns in the East Kazakhstan Region from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. The primary focus is on population dynamics and changes in the region’s ethnic composition. The authors examine the impact of socio-economic, historical, and political processes on the evolution of demographic indicators in the East Kazakhstan Region. Particular attention is paid to the resettlement movement to the peripheral territories of the Russian Empire resulting from the agrarian reforms of P. Stolypin, the national liberation uprising of 1916, the Civil War, the famines of the 1920s and 1930s, and the administrative-territorial transformations implemented by the Soviet government. Goals and objectives. The aim of the study is to analyze the distinctive features of the settlement system of the East Kazakhstan Region in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.