RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES OF GERMANS OF WESTERN KAZAKHSTAN IN THE 80s OF THE TWENTIETH century.

Abstract

The topic of the study of religious communities and associations of the Western region of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the last quarter of the XX century and the first quarter of the XXI century, as part of the local history of Kazakhstan, is an insufficiently studied area in modern historical science, which makes this study not only interesting in terms of scientific research, but also relevant for the history of the Republic of Kazakhstan. On the basis of archival documents of authorized bodies, statistical data, publications from depositing and scientific publications and memoirs, the author of this research paper offers a description of the religious and confessional composition of ethnic Germans of the regions of Western Kazakhstan in the places of their compact residence in the 80s of the XX century. The paper also assesses the role they played in shaping the modern picture of the confessional composition of the region.