Between November 26 and December 10, 2025, a business trip to Almaty was organized within the framework of the research project IRN AP26197965, “Everyday Life of Ethnic Repatriates in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Adaptive Strategies and Integration Practices (Case of the Zhetysu Region),” funded by the Committee of Science of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The project leader, Associate Professor of the Department of History and Social-Humanitarian Disciplines N.K. Baigabatova; lecturers M.E. Abdrakhim and V.T. Yenseyeva; and Acting Associate Professor of the Department of Kazakh Language and Literature A.M. Abyzova conducted research and collected materials related to the project at the National Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Chokan Valikhanov Institute of History and Ethnology, the Institute of Philosophy, Political Science and Religious Studies, the A. Baitursynov Institute of Linguistics, and the academic library of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.
During the trip, the research team identified and collected media materials from the 1990s–2000s that had not been digitized and that reflected issues of repatriate adaptation. Published archival documents and official document collections related to repatriation processes were also reviewed. A historiographical analysis of academic literature was carried out, and dissertations defended in Kazakhstan on this topic were selected and examined. As a result, a comprehensive information database was created, incorporating new publications and valuable scholarly data.
