Women of Central Kazakhstan during the Great Patriotic War

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the issue of participation of women of Central Kazakhstan at the fronts of Great Patriotic War. An analysis of Kazakhstani historiography shows that there is still no accurate data on the number of Kazakhstani women mobilized to the front (neither in the republic, nor in the regions of Kazakhstan). The article notes that in the USSR at the front in different periods of the War from 600 thousand to 1 million women fought, and the often repeated figure of 5183 of Kazakhstani women called up to the front requires clarification. Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, tens of thousands of women wrote applications together with men in the military registration and enlistment offices of KazSSR, they accounted
for 40 % of the total number of volunteers. This article on the materials of Kazakhstan archival documents tells the stories of the participation of women of Kazakhstan on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. Fragments of fates and stories of the participation of Kazakhstani women and girls in the war are tracked.