Experience of Kazakhstan & Russian Scientific Cooperation in the Field of Archeology and Cultural Heritage Preservation

Scientific self-reflection, which correlates with the understanding of research activities, has recently acquired the character of a necessary contextual study of the development of processes that influenced the formation of modern knowledge. Cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia in the field of archeology and the preservation of cultural heritage has a rich history, which is due to the common destinies of the two countries and geographical proximity. The article focuses on the experience of cooperation in the field of studying the historical and cultural heritage of the Great Steppe and its contextual analysis. The publication presents a wide range of problems in the study of archaeological sites, ranging from the first attempts to fix the cultural identity of new lands during the development of Central Asia by Russia; the organization of scientific expeditions and the results of their work, to large-scale interdisciplinary projects in modern times. The dynamics of Kazakh-Russian cooperation is shown, with a conditional allocation of three periods, against the background of the development of archeology as a science in both countries. The turning points of the institutional development of Kazakhstani archeology are noted, such as the organization of the Turkestan circle of archeology lovers, the formation of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR and the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography. Ch. Valikhanov, and then the Institute of Archeology A. Kh. Margulan with a wide range of international programs. Cooperation between the two countries has great prospects for further development, in which the new flagships of science, research universities, will probably play the main role.