CLASSIFICATION OF CARTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS OF XVIII-XIX CENTURIES ON THE HISTORY OF KAZAKHSTAN

Abstract

The priority task of the Russian Empire, in order to successfully advance into the depths of the Kazakh
steppes, was a cartographic study. The greatest contribution to the topographic study of the territory
of Kazakhstan was made by officers of the Military Topographic Depot and members of the Russian
Geographical Society. In the process of studying the history of Kazakhstan in modern times, the task of
identifying, describing and further using cartographic sources inevitably arises. In order to successfully
study the spatial aspects of the historical process, orienting in a huge number of maps of all kinds and
types, as well as systematization and storage, the article analyzes classification problems and provides
a brief overview of Russian cartographic materials on the history of Kazakhstan in the ХVIIIth and ХIХ th
centuries, from the collection of documents collected during the study. The classification should satisfy
the logical requirement of the study. The basis for the classification of identified old maps was laid down
the main features: territorial, chronological, thematic, scale, purpose and content. In this case, first of all,
the dominant feature of the map was taken into account and the classification was carried out according
to it, additional features were secondary and filled the classification.