History of sedentary settlements in Western Kazakhstan during the Golden Horde period: reconstruction of material culture of everyday life
Project goal is to reveal the spheres and main aspects of everyday culture of settled communities of Western Kazakhstan during the Golden Horde period, including clothing, utensils, crafts, food, everyday life, as well as natural and climatic conditions.
Tasks: in order to implement and achieve the scientific results of the project, researchers face following tasks:
- 1. To reveal the emergence causes and decline of settled agricultural culture in the territory of Western Kazakhstan during the Golden Horde period
- To investigate the social structure and composition of the population of the settled agricultural culture;
- To highlight the specifics of the settled culture of Western Kazakhstan;
- To investigate main stages and evolution of sedentary life in the Golden Horde period of Western Kazakhstan;
- To study the historiography of the problem in order to analyze and classify it;
- To explore the world//regional experience of reconstruction of settled communities of the Golden Horde;
- To conduct an extensive study of existing cultural elements, such as clothing, utensils, crafts, food, everyday life, as well as the natural and climatic conditions of Western Kazakhstan during the Golden Horde period;
- To study the influence of everyday culture on the formation and development of the national culture of the Kazakh people, identify common and unique features and relationships between them;
- To assess the relevance of using new discoveries and methodological approaches in domestic historical science and determine how they can be applied for a deeper understanding of everyday culture of the Golden Horde;
- To assess the impact and conclusions that can be drawn from the study of the everyday culture of the Golden Horde on the rethinking of the history of the Republic of Kazakhstan, especially in the context of the formation and preservation of cultural traditions.
| № | Full name Education, degree, academic title | Main place of work, position | Hirsch index, Researcher ID, ORCID, Scopus | Brief justification of participation |
| 1 | Uzhkenov E. M., Candidate of Historical Sciences
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R. B. Suleimenov Institute of Oriental Studies, Leading Researcher | Hirsch Index-1, identifiers:
ResearcherID: JOK-2993-2023, ORCID 0000-0003-2577-1373, Scopus Author ID:57783406100 |
Deals with issues of transformation and historical geography, and has experience working in the archives of Kazakhstan and Russia. Participated in the implementation of a scientific project under the program “Great Names of the Great Steppe”, “Interactive Map of Kazakhstan: from Antiquity to the Present Day”, participates in the implementation of projects “Reconstruction of the Golden Horde settlement of Aktobe Laeti: source study and historiographic aspects”. Research work in the GF project “Political portraits of the leaders of the Junior Zhuz in the 18th – 1st half of the 19th centuries in domestic and foreign historiography” and others.
Author of 2 collective monographs, more than 40 scientific publications. In 2022, a co-authored article was published in a journal indexed in the Scopus database and others. Several scientific articles have been published on certain aspects of the topic of the proposed Project. |
| 2 | Shotanova G. A.,
Candidate of Historical Sciences
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Sh.Sh.Valikhanov Institute of History and Ethnology, Head of the department “History of Kazakhstan in modern times” | Hirsch Index-1,
identifiers: ResearcherID: JOK-2950-2023, ORCID 0000-0002-3641-5668, Scopus Author ID-57214320736 |
Author of more than 40 scientific publications published in the countries of the near and Far East abroad, including a non-zero ImpactFact publication (Scopus), 1 monograph, and 1 textbook. Specialist in the field of studying issues of Kazakh-Russian relations in Modern times. Interests include colonial history, historiography, source studies, and soon. She was a performer in several scientific projects, a scientific supervisor in two projects, as well as a coordinator of the PCF direction: “The Kazakh Khanate: from accepting citizenship to eliminating statehood” (2019-2020) and coordinator of the 5th volume of the PCF “Development of a 7-volume academic publication on the History of Kazakhstan” (2021-2022), etc. |
| 3 | Abusseitova M. Kh.
Corresponding member NAS RK, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor |
Republican Information Center at the R.B. Suleimenov Institute of Oriental Studies, Chief Researcher | Hirsch Index – 1,
ResearcherID: JPK-5920-2023, |
Historian-orientalist, specialist in the history and culture of Central Asia and Eastern countries. She has prepared and published a total of more than 300 publications, including 10 monographs, 3 textbooks published in Kazakh, Russian, English, French, Turkish and Persian, which are devoted to the study of written Oriental (Persian – and Turkic-speaking) sources, first identified in foreign manuscript collections and introduced into scientific circulation. He speaks Persian, Turkish, Old English, Old French, English and French. She was the head of the section of Oriental studies under the state program “Madeni Mura”, “People in the flow of history”, “Gylym Kazyna”, “History and Culture of the Great Steppe”, “Archive-2025”. Led and participated in the implementation of 50 research projects |
| 4 | Tabynbayeva Z. S.,
Candidate of Historical Sciences |
R. B. Suleimenov Institute of Oriental Studies, Leading researcher | Hirsch Index-0,
ResearcherID: JPK-5372-2023 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9771-6560 |
Specialist in the field of studying materials from Western European travelers on the history and culture of Kazakhstan and Central Asian countries. Speaks English. Has experience in conducting archaeological expeditions. Participated in more than 6 scientific projects |
| 5 | Shamshidenova F.M.,
Candidate of Historical Sciences |
JSC “Almaty Technological University” | Hirsch Index – 1,
DOI https://doi.org/10.26577/ JH. 2022. v107.i4.05 ORSID https://orcid.org/ 00000003-4323-7131
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Specialist in the field of studying Siberian, Western European, and Eastern sources on
the history of Siberia and Central Asia. Speaks English and Chagatai languages. |
| 6 | Yekibassova
Zh.M., Master of International Relations, Phd Doctorate |
R. B. Suleimenov Institute of Oriental Studies, Phd Doctorate | Hirsch Index-0,
ResearcherID: JPK-5515-2023 |
Mainly deals with the problems of the history of Kazakhstan. The main objects of research are the socio-political history of Western Kazakhstan. Speaks English. |
August 5, 2024. Members of the research group of the grant scientific project for 2024-2026 “History of sedentary settlements in Western Kazakhstan during the Golden Horde period: reconstruction of material culture of everyday life” held a meeting to discuss the calendar plan and planned publications in peer-reviewed foreign and (or) domestic publications recommended by the Committee for Quality Assurance of Education and Science of the MES RK.
