Paper abstract:

The proposed presentation examines the nature, number and survival strategies of women in migration to the territory of Kazakhstan. The considered female migrations, including exiles, deportations, evacuations, accounted for 40 to 70% of the migration flows of the forced migration contingent. The presentation highlights the main groups of women, analyzes the main categories in each wave of migration. We will analyze the main groups (the German population evicted from the North Caucasus, Crimea, Georgia), and establish the number of those women who were expelled as part of the above contingents, but were included in the statistics as other nationalities, and did not represent a large statistical value for the bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Kaz SSR. This will allow us to assess the reliability of the special census of the NKVD.

Based on the declassified materials of the prosecutor's office, the NKVD-MVD of Kazakhstan, the materials of the census of deportees-special settlers in the territory of the Kazakh SSR, personal files, statements to the authorities identified in the archives of the Russian Federation (State Archive of the Russian Federation, Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History), archives of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Archive of the Committee on Legal Statistics and Special Accounts of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan), oral interviews with eyewitnesses, families of the repressed, we will show the strategy of women's survival, the mechanism of control and the role of state bodies in their lives.

This complex of archival materials will allow not only to reconstruct the process of women in migration on the territory of Kazakhstan, but will also help to identify the “forgotten” repressed female names that were deliberately not included in the processes of Soviet glorification and are still absent in the public and educational space of the country.