SHAPING KAZAKHSTAN’S HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY: RESEARCH OVERVIEW

Abstract

Since the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the global scientific community began to combine approaches and methods of history and geography, creating a new direction known as "historical geography". In Kazakhstani science, historical geography, although has achieved significant success, still remains a secondary direction of historical science and has not reached the stage of institutionalization into a separate field of research. The purpose of this article is to consider some aspects of the development of historical geography in Kazakhstan in comparison with the trajectory of development of world and Soviet science. To this end, the article first examines the development of the school of historical geography in Western schools with an emphasis on Anglo-Saxon traditions. Then, the development of the Soviet school of historical geography is analyzed. Then, the article moves on to an analysis of the stages of development of the Kazakhstani historical-geographical direction. In conclusion, the authors summarize the current state of historical geography research in Kazakhstan.