The article will focus on the ethnodemographic development of Kazakhstan in the 20-30s of the twentieth century.

As a result of this famine, the Kazakh population was in a minority on their land until yesterday, giving way to others. Historical demographics forward its conclusions, exploring the subtleties of this hungry agony, so that it does not happen again in the future. From this point of view, we can calculate with great accuracy the final results of the All-Union Population Censuses that took place in 1926, 1937 and 1939, using the works of our brothers-historians and comparing them scientifically.

Foreign historians said that the forced collectivization and settling carried out in Kazakhstan during the years of Sovietization caused a serious demographic catastrophe in the history and fate of the Kazakh people back in the 1930s. Since then, there have been fierce debates in the works and publications of foreign scientists about how many people died in Kazakhstan from hunger in the early 1930s.

The works of Western researchers provide ambiguous information about human casualties in Kazakhstan during the famine. Despite the fact that a large number of documents on human casualties during the famine, which lasted three years, have entered scientific circulation in Kazakhstan, domestic researchers cite a variety of data.