The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the famine of 1921-1922 in Kazakhstan and the role of foreign organizations in the fight against its consequences. The author in the article notes that in addition to the Soviet bodies (Central Committee Pomgol, Narkomprod), the Red Army and the bodies of the Cheka-GPU, foreign humanitarian organizations provided assistance to the starving population of Kazakhstan: the American Relief Administration (ARA), the Society of Quaker Friends (SQF), the Catholic Mission (Mission Vatican), Mezhrabpomgol, Red Cross Society and others. These organizations provided food and medical assistance, cooperated with orphanages and medical institutions, canteens. All humanitarian organizations worked on the basis of special agreements, which stipulated the conditions for granting them the right to free transportation of products by rail, the allocation of cars and horse-drawn vehicles, premises and warehouses, the protection of goods, equipment and maintenance of nutrition points, free use of telegraph and telephone communications. The article shows the areas of their activities, the specifics and results of their work. The author comes to the conclusion that foreign humanitarian organizations have made a great contribution to the fight against hunger, in a short period of time they have provided great food and medical assistance, saved thousands of people from death.