The purposes and the tasks of the Research

A ccording to the objectives it is supposed to solve the following tasks:

- To analyze the documents and works collected in the historical archive of the Orenburg scientific archival commission founded on the initiative of Russia with the purpose of overall learning of the materials on the history of Kazakh nation by scientific expeditions, groups of scientists and militaries, scientific organizations and etc from new positions.

- To analyze fundamental works and to determine main directions of development of archiving in Orenburg under the influence of the activity of the Orenburg scientific archival commission.

- To reanalyze the list of scientists, officials and militaries who were the members of the Orenburg scientific archival commission, comparing the directions of their research work and estimating their contribution from the critical point of view as far as possible.

- To analyse from modern positions various difficulties in collecting archival materials, circumstances of tendentious choosing the materials collected in colonial office and the reasons of destruction of many important documents to please imperial Russia’s political interests.

- To enter into a scientific turn works of the representatives of the national intelligency involved in the scientific institutions, to reveal their political sights, and also to propagandize their heritage for the good of future generation.

- Paying special attention to the cooperation with other scientific institutions during 30 years’ activity of the Orenburg scientific archival commission to determine the general and especial points in history, ethnographies, archaeology and in other scientific directions of the researches carried out among the people of Kazakhstan and Central Asia by the commission.

- In the research work to show especially a role of separate scientists worked in the commission such as I.A.Kastane, etc., whose proceedings about Kazakhstan, published abroad, lit on the contribution of Kazakh people to the world history.