ABLAI KHAN IN FOREIGN HISTORIOGRAPHY

Abstract

The foreign historiography on Kazakhstan is diverse, it includes not yet studied documents published in scientific periodicals, translated, for example, from Chinese, as did the French orientalist C. Imbault-Huart  in the dissertation " Notices géographiques et historiques sur les peuples de l’Asie сentrale traduites du Si Yu t’ou Tсhe ", defended at the University of Lyon, and a small part of which, where it is about Ablai Khan, is analyzed in the article.  It is noted that the research on the identification of new materials in the foreign historiography of  Kazakhstan, especially in the XVIII century, associated with the rule of Ablai Khan, should be continued. New materials, regardless of the language, should be translated, studied in detail and introduced into scientific circulation. Comparative studies with previous studies on the subject will allow you to identify the common and special features in the studies of different authors.