This article is devoted to the study of the «Works» of the Society for the study of the Kazakh region. The «Society for the study of the Kazakh region» existed as a Scientific Society and was the direct successor of the Orenburg scientific archival commission and the Orenburg department of the Russian geographical society. For the entire period of his scientific activity (1920-1932) The society was engaged in a comprehensive study of Kazakhstan and the Kazakh people. In the «Works» of the Society there are a number of works devoted to the study of geographical features of the regions of Kazakhstan, historical events of the second half of the XVIII-early XIX centuries. The «Works» of the Society for the study of the Kazakh region» made a huge contribution to the development of local history in Kazakhstan.