The article discusses the history of meat and livestock procurement in the regions of Northern Kazakhstan. The authors analyzed the activities of the procurement network of the All-Union Association of the Meat Industry “Soyuzmyazo”, regional and local authorities aimed at implementing the plans in the period of intensive meat procurement, that is, in 1930-1932, in the supply of meat to the industrial centers of the USSR and the Red Army. The research was carried out on the basis of documents stored in the holdings of the republican and regional archives of the Akmola and North Kazakhstan regions. The article, as a result of regional research, contains information about the timing and volume of livestock procurement, the methods of its implementation and its consequences that have affected the socio-economic situation of the local population in the regions of North Kazakhstan.

The authors assume that as a result of meat procurement, coupled with the socialization of livestock during the period of mass collectivization, the population was left with virtually no livestock. In addition, there was a sharp decline in the number of livestock and the state became the main owner of the livestock industry, since livestock procurement, in addition to supplies to Moscow, Leningrad and other industrial centers, also ensured staffing of collective herds on farms and newly organized state-owned enterprises.

In the article, the authors conclude that the population's loss of livestock became the cause of a socio-economic catastrophe - famine. As evidence of this, the article provides examples from archival documents and describes the survival tactics of the Kazakh population in the conditions of famine, which was a consequence of the authorities' activities in the procurement sector.