Abstract:

More than a hundred years have passed since the tragic events of 1916, known as Urkun. In the summer of 1916, the peoples of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan rebelled against the Russian Empire. But the uprising was quickly suppressed by the authorities. The actions of the military forces of the empire provoked the exodus of the population of then Turkestan to the territory of modern China. It is widely known about three main routes by which people left their lands, pursued by punitive detachments

However, despite a sufficient amount of material, until now there have been no detailed maps that would mark which routes people fled and which settlements on the Chinese side they reached.

This paper is based on the tremendous work done by Gulzada Abdaliyeva in collecting and processing international archival materials and materials collected on ethnographic expeditions to China. On the basis of these materials, using modern geoinformation systems, maps were created that show in maximum detail the path from where the people of Kyrgyzstan fled in those years and where they came.

We hope that the results of this joint work will be of interest to both professional historians and a wide audience