The article describes the Kazakh-Kyrgyz historical and cultural ties of the Kegen region with neighboring Kyrgyzstan using oral historical materials. Oral data represent valuable additional materials about the Kazakh-Dzhungar war, the reasons for the uprising of the Kazakhs and Kyrgyz against tsarism in 1916, to the famous epic of Manas, Chokan Valikhanov's visit to Issyk-Kul. Oral historical data for the first time introduced scientific circulation.