The article examines the history of political repression against the scientific and creative intelligentsia in Kazakhstan in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Based on the analysis of materials collected in a complex of archival data, the measures taken by the administrative and authoritarian system in Kazakhstan after the war in relation to culture and art, literature, theater and cinema are substantiated. The Soviet government was still trying to maintain power in the vast country through propaganda efforts. However, it is noted that, encroaching on human rights and freedoms, he closely monitors each person, his will, personal interests, and the desire to find concrete answers to the "demands of the time."

 It reports on the conduct of a special examination of each creative work with the establishment of State control committees to oversee all types of cultural activities. These issues are clearly reflected in official documents, information and analytical materials, orders and charters of all union, republican and party bodies. In this regard, the article considers the fact that during this period special control over the sphere of culture and art was strengthened, and all creative activity was carried out exclusively from the point of view of party principles.