Abstract
This article tells about the research heritage of Kaiyrzhan Khasanov, an honored journalist of Kazakhstan, known for the West Kazakhstan region, a local historian who studied the history of Karatobe and put it on paper. Review of the researcher's works on the fate of participants in the national liberation uprising of 1916 and repressed citizens of 1937-38. The author’s significance in the study of the history of the region is based on the new data he collected about people who were persecuted and innocently punished in their time from the Karatobinsky region, which is confirmed by specific examples in research works.