Abstract
Today it is necessary to conduct research that systematizes historical documents and reconstructs the history of education and the fate of Kazakh students in higher educational institutions of the Russian Empire. Based on this, the purpose of my article is to analyze the office documentation of Kazakh students of the Imperial Kazan University and Veterinary Institute. For the scientific analysis of office documentation of Kazakh students of the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries. a systematic approach and source study synthesis were used, which allows us to see the integrity of historical sources and opens up opportunities for expanding social research, involving in the field of studying socio-cultural changes in the Kazakh steppe of the second half of the 19th century. Additional materials. The type of documents we studied is varied: petitions for admission to students of a certain faculty, graduates of higher educational institutions, metric certificates, information about health status; certificates of completion of gymnasiums; certificate of scholarship amount, educational programs, commission protocols on passing state exams, etc. The source analysis of the office documentation of Kazakh students in Kazan turned out to be perspective, because it reveals not only little-studied aspects of the life of Kazakh students in the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries, but also identified Kazakh families where Kazakh families where the importance of gaining knowledge and educating their children in educational institutions has become a pattern. And accordingly, from the second half of the 19th century, Kazan became one of the centers of formation of the Kazakh intellectual elite.