THE MEDIEVAL KAZAKHSTAN HISTORY IN WORKS OF A.KH. MARGULAN (BASED ON ACADEMICIAN’S PERSONAL ARCHIVE)

Abstract

Introduction. The article analyses documents from A. Kh. Margulan personal fund, kept in the National Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NA RK) of the history of medieval Kazakhstan. The material base of the research was fund 195 of NA RK. The principle of historicism is used as methodological tools. Also, we used the comparative-historical method. The aim is to analyze the materials of the A. Kh. Margulan personal fund on Kazakh Khanate and medieval Kazakhstan history and identify scientific problems which have not lost their relevance in our time.

 Results. The works of folk folklore as a source of information about prominent figures of the Golden Horde epoch (Yedige, Toktamysh); data on medieval architecture of cities and gravestones, data on the library of Uraz-Muhammed, materials of Russian orientalists on the steppe history were revealed in the academician's personal fund.

Conclusion. Manuscripts and archival documents collected in personal fund of A. Kh. Margulan are a valuable source of the history of medieval Kazakhstan, the potential of which has not been fully explored in modern science. The introduction of the materials of the fund of a prominent Kazakh scientist into the scientific turnover should contribute to the deepest study of the history of the Kazakh Khanate, its prominent personalities, archaeological and cultural monuments of the medieval era.