The forming of East Slavic diasporas in Zhetysu in 1860s-1880s
The article dwells upon the settling of Ukrainian migrants in Governor-Generalship of the Steppes and in Turkestan (in the region that now is Kyrgyzstan), their relationships with the local Cossacks and the «aborigines». Basing on the statistics we propose a way to differentiate the first wave of migrations (1860s-1880s) from the latter waves.