Regional features of ethnic settlement of the population of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the period of independence
The article is devoted to the analysis of changes in ethnic structure of the population of Kazakhstan in 1991-2014. The special attention is paid to ethnic geography, the centers of concentration of the indigenous Kazakh and resettlement of the Russian-speaking people. The ethnic structure of the population of country developed throughout the long historical time, which began in the middle of the 20th century. As a result the mono-ethnic composition was replaced by multiethnic one, by considerable domination of the Russian-speaking population and brightly expressed regional differentiation. In the 90s of the 20th century, large-scale migratory outflow led to sharp reduction of the European ethnic groups, and the organized immigration of ethnic Kazakhs with a high natural increase significantly influenced the growth of the Kazakh population. Now the situation underwent cardinal changes, the Kazakh population became prevailing not only in rural, but even in the urban district of RK. The aim of this work is in the analysis of changes, which were happened and are still happening nowadays in regional placement of the multiethnic population of the country. The scientific novelty is defined by identification of new tendencies in ethnodemographic development of the population of RK and its regions.