Kazakhstan’s past — from forgotten pages of history to a renewed understanding of traditions and culture.
Historian Yernar Uzhkenov on the Origins of the Nogai Horde and What Became of It
A Guide to the Steppe’s Millennia-Old Culinary Traditions
Why M. Auezov’s Epic Should Be Read Not Only as the Biography of, but Also as the Kazakh Steppe’s Most Important Ethnographic Archive
Pain, protest, and political propaganda in Kazakhstan’s quintessential musical genre
The Story of How War, Diplomacy, and Trade Shaped the Kazakh–Chinese Border
How the First American Travelers Discovered the Kazakh Steppe
The Famine in Kazakhstan and the Search for Missing Relatives
Lecture 5. Kazakhs Between Two Empires
Everything We’ve Forgotten About One of Humanity’s Oldest Holidays
Guess what this thing was used for.
Ethnographer Dosymbek Qatyran on ancient greetings and forgotten rituals
How the Kazakh Khanate’s Economy Worked—and Why It Was Far More Complex Than It Seems
A Chronicle of the Second All-Kazakh Congress
