Abstract
The article provides an analysis of the urban Kazakh population in the modern period.Based on the interview, the author examines the opinions of the urban Kazakhs who are partially or fully assimilated and integrated in the cities.The interview included questions characterizing the presence of modern and traditional attitudes in the behavior of the designated cohort of the urban Kazakh population (compliance with national customs and traditions, communication with relatives, attitudes towards manifestations of cronyism and the preservation of the "big family"), language preferences, peculiarities of interethnic communication, and features of interaction with other groups of Kazakhs living in the city.A separate block of interviews comprised questions revealing the attitude of the respondents to the transformations of the modern urban space: visual, onomastic, ethnic and others.The paper presents conclusions about the differentiation of the urban Kazakh population, and also outlines the proposed scenarios for the further development of urban space by autochthons.The first of the scenarios is the Russification of the Kazakh urban population, the dissolution of ethnic identity and language in the urban space (movement from the traditional to the modern).The next development option is the ruralization of the city (movement from the modern to the traditional), when the city begins to live not according to the established standard and the usual logic of development, but according to the situation in which the modern urban thinking is increasingly giving way to the generic one.The third scenario: on the basis of the former social structure of the city -the transformation of its individual elements (ethnic, cultural, economic), creating the prerequisites for a kind of synthesis of mutual coexistence in the same urban space as the Russian language and culture, and Kazakh, in part, with elements of westernization.