On the Research Trip of the Staff of the Ch.Ch. Valikhanov Institute of History and Ethnology to Omsk

From June 4 to 16, 2025, Dr. Z.T. Sadvokasova, Chief Researcher of the Ch. Ch. Valikhanov Institute of History and Ethnology, and Dr. A.T. Akhmetzhanova, member of the research group, conducted a research trip to the city of Omsk (Russian Federation) as part of the state-funded grant project titled “District Administrations of the Steppe Regions of Kazakhstan in the Implementation of the Colonial Policy of Tsarism (Second Half of the 19th – Early 20th Century).”

The purpose of the trip was to collect documentary materials from the Historical Archive of the Omsk Region and the Omsk State Regional Scientific Library named after A.S. Pushkin, which will serve as a foundation for the compilation of a document collection, a monograph, and scientific articles under the project.

During the trip, valuable archival documents were identified, and scholarly works of Omsk historians were studied. These works cover topics such as the 200th anniversary of the Omsk Region, tsarist administrative policy in Siberia, civil service organization, and Russian-Kazakh relations in the Omsk Irtysh region and the Steppe Territory during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

A productive meeting was held with Mr. Bogdan A. Masan, Deputy Director of the Historical Archive of the Omsk Region. His consultations were helpful in identifying key documents on the activities of district heads, local administration, and the sociocultural dynamics of the Kazakh population under imperial integration policies. Scientific works by Dr. Z.T. Sadvokasova and other Institute scholars were donated to the archive.

A constructive discussion was also held with Dr. Alexey P. Sorokin, Deputy Director of the Omsk Regional Scientific Library and a well-known historian and local studies expert. The parties exchanged books, and Dr. Sorokin gifted the Institute a 2023 publication titled “Russia–Kazakhstan. A New Look at the Past. The 21st Century”, which was added to the Institute’s library collection.

The collected archival materials, scanned copies, and analyzed academic literature will be utilized in the ongoing implementation of the project.