Results of excavations of victims of mass political repressions of 1937–1938 in the village of Zhanalyk, Almaty region of Kazakhstan in 2018

Baigunakov D. Sabdenova G. Egamberdiyev M. Stoyan A.
2025 Routledge

Journal of Slavic Military Studies
2025 #38 Issue 2 201 - 222 pp.

The study of the remains of victims of mass repression has not yet been addressed in Kazakhstan’s archeology. This study requires complex measures and interdisciplinarity. For perhaps the first time, this article examines the following aspects in conjunction with other branches of science (forensic science, statistics, forensic medical examination): looking at the history of repression policy in Kazakhstan, including the shooting process, the murder weapons used, the belongings and clothing of the murdered people, and the total number of people buried in one grave. Altogether, this shows the ruthlessness and cruelty of law enforcement agencies that committed atrocities at an individual level towards other humans.

Almaty , archaeology , archeology , execution , human bones , Kazakhstan , mass burials , political repression , Red Terror , shooting , skull , Stalinism

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Archeology, Ethnology and Museology Department at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Faculty of History, Department of World History, Historiography and Source Studies at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Faculty of Oriental studies, Department of Turkish Studies and History of the East, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Institute of Forensic Science in Almaty, Department of Forensic Science, Kazakhstan

Archeology
Faculty of History
Faculty of Oriental studies
Institute of Forensic Science in Almaty

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