The article examines in detail the course of the confiscation campaign in the Southern region of Kazakhstan in the 1920s of the nineteenth century of the Soviet period, as well as carefully reviewed archival documents indicating taxes and deportees included in the bay-kulak list and the actual numbers of prisoners received as a result of the political campaign in the districts and villages of the Syrdarya district.

In particular, on the basis of specific archival data, the researchers show the scale of confiscation of prominent citizens of the Karatas district, list the rich kulaks of the area of the Podzharsky volost and demonstrate the wide scope of confiscation. In addition, a secret list of large rich people of  Kumaryk, Shu and Talas volosts of Aulie-Ata county will be published.

Also, during the campaign to confiscate the bai kulaks in 1928-1930, on the basis of archival documents, numerous fates of repressed citizens of the Southern region were studied and an attempt was made to use the policy of political repression as an important source for study.

The authors, in turn, analyze in detail these tragic pages of the last century and make extensive use of extensive statistical data on this issue, and strive for a comprehensive disclosure of the topic taken as the object of research.

At the same time, the attitude of the national intelligentsia to this issue is analyzed and differentiated more widely, as well as old memories of generations of political repression that were confiscated.

There are quite valuable materials related to confiscation in the general archives. Therefore, the authors submit to scientific circulation secret archival documents related to the problem under consideration.