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Territorial structure of the ethnocultural space of Kazakhstan and Central Asia based on the results of population censuses of 1959 and 1970
Territorial structure of the ethnocultural space of Kazakhstan and Central Asia based on the results of population censuses of 1959 and 1970
Annotation

The relevance of the study is associated with insufficient knowledge of the processes of ethnic transformation in the republics of the former Soviet Union in the domestic geography, both in the post-Soviet time and in the Soviet period. The aim of the study is to develop a methodology for identifying the main components of the ethnocultural space of Kazakhstan and Central Asia based on the results of the All-Union population censuses of 1959 and 1970. The methodology is based on the concepts of geoethnocultural systems, ethnocontact zones and the general center-periphery model developed in Russian cultural geography. This technique can be applied to other regions of the post-Soviet space.

As a result, in 1959, the following main components of the territorial structure of the ethnocultural space were identified in the research region: 1) ethnic cores of national geoethnocultural systems of strong and medium degree (most of the territories of the Central Asian republics, except for Kyrgyzstan and the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic); 2) weakly expressed ethnic cores of national geoethnocultural systems (southern parts of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic); 3) a pronounced ethnocontact zone, formed by the imposition of the periphery of the Russian and national geoethnocultural systems, with a dominant Russian culture (north and east of Kazakhstan, northern Kyrgyzstan, capitals of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan); 3) the inner periphery of the Russian geoethnocultural system with a clear dominance of Russian culture (northern and eastern marginal regions of Kazakhstan, the capitals of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan). By 1970, the share of the titular peoples of the republics grew by about 3 %, which contributed to the strengthening of the ethnic cores of national geoethnocultural systems.

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Andrei Manakov
Professor of Department of Geography
Pskov State University
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