THE HISTORY OF THE FORMATION OF THE KAZAKH-RUSSIAN BORDER IN THE 20-s OF THE XX CENTURY

In the history of the formation of Kazakhstan's borders, the period of the 20s of the twentieth century is of particular importance. After the October Revolution of 1917, it was important for the new Soviet state to change the existing administrative-territorial division, taking into account the political and economic tasks that it faced. The article shows the contradictory and ambiguous process of national-territorial demarcation of the Soviet republics, which resulted in the ethnic-territorial and state consolidation of the Kazakh people. Based on the analysis of extensive historiography, various approaches to understanding the processes of transformation of state borders and border territories, conditions and factors determining them are analyzed. The study of archival materials and documentary sources made it possible to reconstruct the complex and nonlinear process of the formation of the Kazakh-Russian border and to show the contribution of the leaders of "Alash" to the unification of the Kazakh lands as part of the Kyrgyz (Kazakh) Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic.