Development of Education in the Steppe Region: Kazakh, Russian and Tatar Factors

The article discusses the evolution of Russian policy in the field of education of the Kazakh population and the formation of the national education system in the steppe regions in the pre-revolutionary period. An attempt is being made to examine the origins of educational policy through the prism of a regional approach. It is concluded that there were serious differences in the issue of attracting Tatars to the education of the Kazakh population in the Orenburg and West Siberian departments before the adoption of the Provisional Regulations of 1868 and a significant unification of education policy since the creation of the steppe regions. In the article the serious attention paid to the introduction of primary and secondary education in Russian, Kazakh and Tatar languages, the successful experience of creating Russian-Kazakh schools, their role and impact on society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among other things, it is concluded that Jadidism has a limited impact on the development of education and the political situation in Akmola, Semipalatinsk, Ural and Turgai regions.