Abstract
The scientific and creative intelligence of Karlag: the historiographical aspectOne of the urgent, both in scientific and in public terms, problems of the recent history of Kazakhstan is the study of political repression.For the period from the 1920-1950s.Totalitarianism has firmly entered into life, has become a reality, entrenched in the consciousness of more than one generation of Soviet people.This article discusses the historiography of the scientific and creative intelligentsia of Karlag.The author has made an extensive review of the main works of Soviet and modern authors.The study showed that the history of the scientific and creative intelligentsia of Karlag was not the subject of special research in the domestic scientific literature.