Аннотация
This article focuses on the study of the history of population migrations in the Aktobe region in the early 1930s. The forced migration of the Kazakh people during the early 1930s is one of the pressing issues in national history. The mass exodus of the Kazakh population was a direct consequence of the political and economic campaigns conducted by the Soviet government, followed by a devastating famine. The aim of the article is to examine the process of population migrations in this region and provide a historical assessment of the place and significance of these tragic years in the region's history. The study identifies the causes, progress, scale, and specific characteristics of the migration periods in the Aktobe region, the number of refugees, migration routes, the attitude of government bodies towards the famine and migrations, as well as the measures taken and their outcomes. The article is based on the principles of historicism and objectivity, adopting a national perspective. In the process of studying the causes, progression, and periodic features of the Kazakh migrations, the problem-chronological method was employed. Additionally, methods such as generalization, analysis, comparative-historical, historical-genetic, retrospective, and statistical approaches were used in the research. These methods helped to identify the causes of the migrations, their onset, peak, and conclusion, the scale of the migrations, the number of refugees, and the stance and policies of the government bodies. The conclusions drawn from this study are significant and can be applied to teaching the regional history.