А Академик М.Х. Асылбеков и историческая демография Казахстана

Abstract

Historical demography is a relatively young area of historical science in Kazakhstan. Certain information about the population of the Kazakh region was left by Russian officials, military, scientists-researchers of different directions in the XVIII-XIX centuries. Representatives of the Kazakh national intelligentsia – Alikhan Bokeikhanov, Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpayev, Mustafa Shokai - were engaged in a more scientific study of the demography of Kazakhs. In Soviet times, the historical study of the demography of the peoples of the USSR was almost officially banned, and it was only in the 80s that the first significant works began to appear. And yet, this direction received official and free development with the independence of the country. And this very relevant and timely study of the historical demography of the republic is primarily associated with the name of an outstanding scientist, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan Malik-Aidar Khantemirovich Asylbekov. The article examines M.H. Asylbekov's contribution to the historical demography of Kazakhstan, his works, as well as the scientist's contribution to the education of the next generation of demographers across the country.