Abstract:
In the article it is considered the functioning of Steppe region’s governmental police officials in the end of
XIX – beginning of XX centuries. There are considered new archive data for officials of police apparatus of
district and regional centers of Steppe general governorship. According to the Steppe’s regulations of 1891
police power were concentrated at the district heads, their assistants, grabs and other officials of colonial
power apparatus. On the whole, evolution of administrative government in Kazakh steppe mostly depended
on the officials of military and police departments, the central role of which was acted by district heads and
their assistants who had both police and civil functions. The purpose of the article is to show the peculiarity
of Steppe region’s police apparatus officials functioning during the studied period.