K.P. Kaufman’s Project Report as a Historical Source for the Development of Turkestan in the Period of the Late XIX - Early XX Century
The relevance of the study is specified by the fact that the article is devoted to one of the most important historical sources on the political, economic and cultural development of Turkestan region in the period of the late XIX - early XX century, the project of the most faithful report of Adjutant-General and Governor-General of Turkestan Konstantin P. Kaufman. Valuable historical information set forth in the project report has been used repeatedly by researchers in scientific works, but a comprehensive study of the official document of the head of the local administration as a historical source is carried out for the first time. The purpose of the article is to review the main provisions of the project report on the chapters, to study the objectivity of the data presented in each chapter, to analyze the reasons for the introduction of some information into its content. The article contains statistic information from the chapters of the project report in tabular form, as they are published in the original and analyzes the data reflected in the annexes to the project report.