Abstract
The purpose of the article is to examine the emergence, formation and certain
complex aspects in the history of specialized secondary and higher educational institutions
in Kyzylorda, which was the capital of Kazakhstan in 1925–1929, within the context of the
socio-political and cultural processes of the 1920s and 1930s. Based on the analysis of historical
documents and scholarly literature, the study shows that several technical schools were
opened in Kyzylorda in the 1920s and, until the beginning of the Second World War, played an
important role in training specialists for the economy of the republic. The article also considers
the relocation to Kazakhstan and later to Kyzylorda of part of the Korean ethnic group
from the Far Eastern region of the USSR, who were subjected to deportation as one of the
manifestations of the Stalinist totalitarian regime against peoples considered “unreliable for
Soviet power.” On the basis of specific documents, the authors describe the establishment of
Korean schools and a pedagogical institute with instruction in Korean, its subsequent closure
by the Bolshevik authorities, and its transformation into a higher educational institution with
instruction in Kazakh and Russian. The materials are introduced into scholarly circulation for
the first time.
01 Introduction
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