Abstract
Тhis article describes the most important aspects of formation of the Kazakh diaspora in Kyrgyzstan, which include identification of objective and subjective reasons for migration processes, forms and types of settlement (compact or disperse), and an analysis of dynamics of statistical variations in the number of migrants as a function of tribal and ethnic composition of the Kazakh diaspora. Using the archival data, statistical and field sources, the authors made a systematic overview of the unstudied pages of historical events that ultimately became the main factors forming specific features of ethnic Kazakhs in Kyrgyzstan. Using the materials of the first Russian census, state acts and decrees of the Soviet government as primary sources, the authors try to reveal specific features of the tsarist colonial policy and the policy of Soviet command-administrative system, which acted as a totalitarian system with respect to the so-called non-Russian component of the multimillion empire. As the most important historical stages in the formation of the Kazakh diaspora in Kyrgyzstan the authors identified the events related to the 1916 uprising, collectivization and the famine of 1932-1933. The most important stratum considered in this article is emergence of such a socio-historical phenomenon as oralmans-immigrants on the horizon of national history after gaining Independence.