Institute of History and Ethnology named after Sh. Sh. Ualikhanov

Full name: ABDIROV MURAT ZHETKERGENOVICH

Position, department: chief researcher of the department of the history of Kazakhstan of modern times of the Institute of History and Ethnology named after Ch.Ch. Valikhanov of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Academician of the Kazakh National Academy of Education (2006)

Academic degree, title: Doctor of Historical Sciences (1998), code of scientific specialty – 07.00.02 – Domestic History (History of the Republic of Kazakhstan), Professor (2003)

Contact details: e-mail: abdirov.murat@mail.ru.

Biography

Born on December 14, 1943 in the city of Aralsk, Kyzylorda region, in a family of rural intellectuals: father is an agronomist, mother is a teacher. In 1960 he graduated from the Aral secondary school named after N.K. Krupskaya. In 1960-1962 worked as a fitter apprentice at the Aral Shipyard and as a sailor at the Aral Shipping Company. In 1963-1967. He served in the Red Banner Northern Fleet in the cities of Severomorsk and Polyarny. Prepared five candidates of historical sciences.

Higher education

1962-1971 – a first-year student of the Faculty of History of Kazakh State University named after S.M. Kirov (with a break for service in the ranks of the Soviet Army in 1963-1967), a graduate of the Department of History of the Kazakh SSR, the head of the thesis was a well-known scientist, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor G.F. Dachschleiger, who gave him a ticket to science.

1977-1980 – postgraduate student of KazGU, in 1981 under the guidance of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor A.R. Akhmetov defended his dissertation for the degree of candidate of historical sciences.

1998 – under the guidance of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Zh.K. Kasymbaev defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences.

Professional experience:

1971-1973 – assistant, lecturer, senior lecturer of the Department of History of the USSR, Ural Pedagogical Institute named after A.S. Pushkin.

1973-1975 – Lecturer of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Ural Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan.

1975-1977 – Senior Lecturer, Department of History of the USSR UPI named after. A.S. Pushkin.

1981-1987 – Senior researcher at the Institute of Party History under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan.

1987-1992 – Associate Professor of the Alma-Ata Higher Party School.

1992-1999 – Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Socio-Political Theories of the Kazakh Agricultural Institute.

1996 – Head of the Department of History of Kazakhstan, Kazakh National Agrarian University.

1999-2002 – Head of the Department of International Relations, Political Science and Sociology, Director of the Institute of International Relations of the Eurasian National University named after L.N. Gumilyov, at the same time professor of the department of international relations and world economy of the same university.

2002-2004 – Professor of the Department of History of Kazakhstan of Abai State University, also concurrently Professor of the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Professor of the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of Kazakhstan of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

2004-2011 – Professor of the Department of Philosophy and Law of the Kazakh-British Technical University (KBTU).

2012-2020 – Professor of the Department of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines, Journalism and International Relations of the University of International Business.

September 2020 – Chief Researcher of the Department of the History of Kazakhstan of the Modern Times of the Institute of History and Ethnology named after Ch.Ch. Valikhanov KN MES RK. Participates in the preparation of a Brief History of Kazakhstan for a foreign audience and a 7-volume history of Kazakhstan.

Encouragement: awarded with two medals of the USSR, certificates of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Scientific interests: focus on the most pressing problems of modern humanities and compliance with the world level of research. The main circle of his scientific interests is connected with the history of modern Kazakhstan (XVIII – early XX centuries), the study of the military-Cossack colonization of the region, the conquest of Kazakhstan and Central Asia by tsarist Russia, the role of the Russian Cossack troops in this process – the Ural, Orenburg, Siberian and Semirechensk . For the first time in Russian historical science, the history of the tsarist Cossack troops and the military-Cossack colonization of the region was singled out as an independent scientific problem; he published five individual and collective monographs on this topic. In recent years, based on the latest archaeological, anthropological, ethnographic and linguistic materials, he has been actively studying the history of the Indo-European (Indo-Aryan) tribes of Kazakhstan of the Bronze Age, their role in the formation of the Kazakh ethnos, in the origin of the ethnonym “Kazakh”.

Publications:

Author of 11 books and over 100 articles on the history of Kazakhstan and world politics, published in domestic and foreign publications. These are such works as: “History of the Cossacks of Kazakhstan” (1994), “Khan Kuchum: known and unknown” (1996), “The conquest of Kazakhstan by Tsarist Russia and the struggle of the Kazakh people for independence” (2000), ” History of the Semirechensk Cossack army. 1867-1917″ (2011) and “Siberian Cossacks and Kazakhs of the Steppe Territory in the XVIII-XIX centuries.” (2016).

Together with Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor A.K. Kusainov published monographs: “Actual problems of innovative development of the historical science of Kazakhstan” (2013) and “History of Kazakhstan in the stream of world historiography: achievements, problems, prospects, reflections, doubts and hopes …” (2015). They analyze the achievements of national historical thought over the years of independence, the content, goals and objectives of the new state policy in the field of national history.

Author of two major monographs on the problems of modern world politics and international relations: “Discovering another America, China, Russia and Kazakhstan” (2011) and “China in the modern global world” (2013). Both books have been donated to the Library of Congress, the University of Illinois Library, and other US universities.

Actively speaks in the press on the problems of national and world history, researches and publishes historical portraits of prominent personalities of the era of the Golden Horde and the Kazakh Khanate. In 2021, he published the monograph “The Kazakh Khan in the Russian State”, dedicated to the fate of the Kazakh Sultan Oraz-Mukhammed Ondanuly, who became the first Kazakh ruler of the Kasimov Khanate in the Russian State.

He made presentations at international scientific conferences in Moscow, Omsk, Bishkek and other cities of the CIS. In 2014-2016, he was a consultant of the scientific project of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan under the program “People in the Stream of History” on the topic: “Siberian Cossacks and Kazakhs of the Steppe Territory in the 18th-19th centuries.” As a result of the implementation of this project in 2016, a collective monograph “Siberian Cossacks and Kazakhs of the Steppe Territory in the 18th-19th centuries” was published. Astana, 2016.

List of monographs:

1. History of the Cossacks of Kazakhstan. Almaty: Kazakhstan, 1994. 160 p.

2. Khan Kuchum: known and unknown. Almaty: Zhalyn, 1996. 176 p.

3. The conquest of Kazakhstan by Tsarist Russia and the struggle of the Kazakh people for independence (From the history of the military-Cossack colonization of the region in the late XVIII – early XX centuries). Astana: Elorda. 2000. 304 p.

4. Discovery of another America, China, Russia and Kazakhstan. Almaty: Kazakh University, 2011. 440 p.

5. Semirechensk Cossack army. From the history of the military-Cossack colonization of Zhetysu in 1867-1917. – Almaty: Kazakh University, 2011. 362 p. (together with Z.S. Aktamberdiyeva).

6. China in the modern global world (will the era of Pax China come in the 21st century as the implementation of the age-old Chinese tradition?): popular science study. Almaty: Kazakh University, 2013. 422 p.

7. Actual problems of innovative development of historical science in Kazakhstan. Astana: LLP Master PO, 2013. 149 p. (together with A.K. Kusainov).

8. History is my destiny. Almaty: Kazakh University, 2014. 296 p.

9. The history of Kazakhstan in the stream of world historiography: achievements, problems, prospects, reflections, doubts and hopes … Astana: Master PO LLP, 2015. 317 p. (together with A.K. Kusainov).

10. Siberian Cossacks and Kazakhs of the Steppe region in the XVIII-XIX centuries. Astana: Master PO, 2016. 373 p. (jointly with Aubakirova A.Kh., Bizhigitova K.S., Kazhenova G.T.).

11. Kazakh Khan in the Russian state. Almaty: LLP “Litera M”, 2021. 542 p.

Articles and reports (2019-2021):

1. Kazakhstan before the Kazakhs: Indo-Iranians and Indo-Aryans in the ancient and ancient history of Kazakhstan // Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Issues of Personalistics of Kazakhstani History: Malik-Aidar Khantemirovich Asylbekov”, dedicated. To the 90th anniversary of Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor M.-A.Kh. Asylbekov. May 23, 2019 Almaty, 2019, pp. 5-24 (283 pp.).

2. To be ahead of the supporters of peace // Thought. 2019. No. 2. S. 26-30.

3. Prakazakhstan: arias in our history // Thought. 2019. No. 8. S. 38-44.

4. The senior sultan of the Akmola district Konyr-Kulzha Kudaimendin – the founder of Akmola (on the question of the historical age of the capital of the Republic of Kazakhstan – the city of Astana) // Historical Yearbook-2019. Almaty, 2019. S. 171-186.

5. The Kazakh king in the Russian state (Kasimov Khan Oraz-Muhammed Ondan-uly in the mirror of alternative history) // Historical Yearbook-2020. Almaty, 2020. S. 67-86.

6. Mukhammed-Khanafiya (Chokan) Chingisovich Valikhanov about the etymon “Cossack”, the ethnonym “Kazakh” and the ethnogenesis of the Kazakh people // Collection of materials Resp. scientific-practical. conf., dedicated To the 90th anniversary of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor D.I. Dulatova. Kanu named after Al-Farabi. January 29, 2021 (electronic version).

7. Kazakh Khan in the Russian state // Collection of materials of Int. scientific conference dedicated to To the 90th anniversary of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of Omsk State University N.A. Tomilova. August 14, 2021 Omsk, publishing house of OmGU, 2021, pp. 156-160.

8. Prakazakhstan: the ancestors of the Kazakhs in the ancient and ancient history of the region // Collection of materials Resp. scientific-practical. conf. “The relevance of developing a Brief History of Kazakhstan for a foreign audience in the framework of the practical implementation of the article by K.-Zh.K. Tokaev “Independence above all”. September 28, 2021 Almaty, 2021. P. 7-14.

9. Kozybaev and issues of studying the history of the Russian Cossacks in Kazakhstan: truth and myths about the formation of the borders of modern Kazakhstan // Collection of materials of Int. scientific-theor. conf. “Academician Manash Kozybaev and modern conceptualization of national history”, dedicated to. The 90th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding scientist-historian, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan Manash Kabashevich Kozybaev. November 16, 2021 Almaty, 2021, pp. 51-60.