Dear colleagues!
Institute of History and Ethnology named after Ch.Ch. Valikhanov of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan October 22, 2025 (date and venue may be subject to change!) invites you to participate in the Republican scientific and practical conference (hereinafter referred to as the Conference) on the topic: “The history of the fates and stay of Kazakhstani prisoners of war in fascist concentration camps on the territory of Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic countries.”
Servicemen from Kazakhstan took an active part in the Second World War, their fates were different. Some of them, winning victories, reached Berlin, others died on the battlefield, a certain part was forced to experience all the hardships of fascist captivity for various reasons before their liberation. Many of the prisoners of war were placed in concentration camps in various European countries, including Poland and the territories of the USSR republics occupied by Nazi Germany. Their fate, which developed during the Second World War, requires its own study, as new declassified sources appear, surviving prisoners of war left their memories, and relatives of deceased concentration camp prisoners are still looking for their great-grandfathers. In this regard, it is necessary to study the history of Kazakhstani prisoners of war, the geography of concentration camps by country, the living conditions of prisoners of war who found themselves in fascist captivity and were kept in inhumane conditions in concentration camps, as well as the problems of surviving prisoners of concentration camps regarding their repatriation to their homeland and problems associated with their rehabilitation.
The purpose of the conference – studying the history of Kazakh prisoners of war in fascist concentration camps in Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic countries, identifying common and specific features of the existence of prisoners of war, strengthening scientific cooperation, and creating a platform for scientific dialogue between researchers from the republic and foreign countries.
The Conference will focus on the following areas of issues:
• national, social, regional origin, age, number and other personal data of Kazakh prisoners of war in concentration camps located on the territory of Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic countries;
• geography of burial sites of Kazakh prisoners of war from fascist concentration camps on the territory of Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic countries, the state and possibilities of perpetuating their memory;
• the process of repatriation of Kazakh prisoners of war to the territory of the USSR will be studied, as well as the process of reintegration and rehabilitation of Kazakh prisoners of war in historical retrospect, etc.
Working languages of the conference: Kazakh, Russian, Polish, English.
Date: October 22, 2025. 11:00 (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
Format: offline and online conference based on Zoom (conference ID: 875 6371 2882, password: 123456, additional information will be provided).
Professional historians, ethnologists, anthropologists, jurists, philologists, philosophers, employees of archives and museums, young scientists: doctoral students, undergraduates, students, as well as the media are invited to participate in the conference.
The expenses of the participants are at the expense of the sending party.
It is planned to publish the collection of the Republican Scientific and Practical Conference (there is no publication fee!). Applications and articles for the Conference Proceedings are accepted electronically by e-mail: aliya.sysenbaeva@mail.ru; е-mail: abuovnur@mail.ru;
The registration form and the materials of the report (articles) /see samples below/ will be accepted no later than October 15, 2025.
For publication of the report (articles, abstracts) materials should be designed in strict accordance with the requirements: the text of the report (related to the conference topic and 7-10 pages long), the registration form and articles should be typed in the MSWord text editor; the file name and applications should be indicated by the author’s surname, for example, “Bayalieva_ Application”, “Bayalieva_ article”.
1. Tables, diagrams, and figures must have a name and be typed in a Windows environment.
2. Page format: A4.
3. Margins: top and bottom – 2 cm each, right – 1 cm, left – 3 cm
4. Font: Times New Roman, KZ Times New Roman, size – 14
5. The line spacing is single.
6. Red line indentation: 1.0 cm.
7. In the center, in lowercase letters (bold), full name of the author(s), academic degree, title (if any)
8. Below is the full name of the institution where the author(s) works, position(s), city, country, e-mail.
9. Under the full name of the author, the title of the report is indicated in the center in CAPITAL LETTERS in bold.
10. One interval after the paragraph indentation is an Abstract (2-3 sentences) and Keywords (5-7 words).
Next is the text of the report (article).
11. The list of references (and sources) is placed at the end of the article and compiled in accordance with the order in which the works are mentioned. References in the text are placed in square brackets in the form of the corresponding number in the List of References, indicating (if necessary) the source page, for example: [1, p. 2], or [1, 2024: 2].
12. Tables, diagrams, and figures must have a name and be typed in a Windows environment. All drawings and photos must have good contrast and a resolution of at least 300 dpi. All illustrations should have end-to-end numbering and a caption that is concise in content. A table or drawing is not numbered if they are the only ones in the text. Tables and figures should be referenced in the text.
13. Abbreviations of words are not allowed, except for the generally accepted ones. Abbreviations are included in the text only after their first mention with a full explanation.
14. It is recommended to link to original articles in highly rated publications; to use sources and modern concepts.
The Organizing Committee of the conference reserves the right to reject materials that do not correspond to the topic of the conference or the requirements
Articles are not reviewed. The authors are responsible for the content of articles and plagiarism.
APPLICATION FOR PARTICIPATION
| Last name, first name, patronymic (in full) | |
| Name of the institution (in full) | |
| Title of the report (article) | |
| Position (in full) | |
| Academic degree | |
| State, city | |
| Contacts (address, phone number, e-mail) | |
Contacts of the Organizing Committee:
Editorial office address:
28 Shevchenko str., Almaty, Valikhanov Institute of History and Ethnology;
Petropavlovsk Pushkin str, Petropavlovsk. Branch of the Valikhanov Institute of History and Ethnology in Petropavlovsk
Republic of Kazakhstan, Nurbolat (е-mail: е-mail: abuovnur@mail.ru тел.: +7 775 1037681, Aliya (e-mail: aliya.sysenbaeva@mail.ru; тел.: +7 701 6320692).
SAMPLE ARTICLE DESIGN
Panto D, PhD doctor
Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk (Poland),
Chief Researcher of the Scientific Department
KAZAKH PRISONERS OF WAR IN POLISH CAMPS DURING
WORLD WAR II
Summary……………………………..
Keywords: ………………….
The text……
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Literature and sources:
| Kalybekova M.Ch. Concentration camps in the territory of Kazakhstan in the 30-50s of the XX century . Norwegian Journal of development of the International Science. №35, 2019 , С.21-25. |
| D. Panto, Podwójnie deportowani… Żołnierze Polskich Sił Zbrojnych w Związku Sowieckim w latach 1945–1951, Gdańsk 2022 |
Sincerely,
the Organizing Committee