Tabuldenov Alibek Nurmagambetovich, Candidate of Historical Sciences

Internship Field: Demography

Name of the foreign organization: Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, Poland)

Scientific Internship Topic: History of the Polish Population in Kazakhstan in the 1930s–1950s

Internship Passing period: 01.04.2025-30.06.2025 

During the fellowship, all tasks set out in the approved program were fulfilled:

• Professional meetings were held with the supervisor of the fellowship and leadership of the Institute of Slavistics.
• Alibek N. Tabuldenov conducted extensive work with scholarly literature in the institute’s libraries, focusing on his research topic.
• He worked with archival documents related to his research topic in Archiwum Akt Nowych and the archival fund “KARTA Center” (Warsaw).

On May 21, Mr. Tabuldenov organized an international roundtable in online format entitled “Polish Special Settlers in Northern Kazakhstan: Population, Settlement, Demographic Structure, Employment, Educational Level.” Scholars from the Polish Academy of Sciences, the University of Warsaw, and Akhmet Baitursynuly Kostanay Regional University participated in this event.

Throughout the fellowship, Mr. Tabuldenov held working meetings and consultations with leading Polish scholars — historians, ethnologists, cultural studies experts, philologists, and sociologists from the Institute of Slavistics; deans of the Faculty of History and the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw; colleagues from the University of Białystok; researchers from the J. Mieroszewski Center, the Pilecki Institute, and the Museum of Siberian Memory.

As a result of these encounters, avenues for educational and scientific collaboration have been identified.

By the end of the fellowship, a monograph and a collection of archival documents have already been published, and two manuscripts of research articles on the subject have been prepared.