Abstract
The article is devoted to the Kazakhs' participation in the European Resistance movement during World War II.It is written based on the documents from the foreign archives, museums and libraries.The author discovered these documents in France, Italy, Norway, Great Britain, Finland, Russia and other countries over the past years, owing to the support from the Presidential Program "People in the Flow of History (2014-2016)" along with grant financing from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.For instance, documents found in the French archives describe participation of Kazakhs (who were former Soviet prisoners of war) in liberating such cities as Albi, Carmaux, Toulouse, Montauban, Carcassonne at the end of 1944, both as part of the Maquis and the First Soviet Partisan regiment.New documents made it possible to discover burial spots of ethnic Kazakhs and citizens of Kazakhstan who fought and died in Europe.Moreover, the article tells about research trips to Italy and Russia during which the author discovered facts about several dozens of Kazakhs' participation in the Italian Resistance movement along with details of their repatriation from Italy to the USSR.