"Learn, learn and learn"

"Oyan Kazakh!"

"Knowledge as the way of saving the nation"

Take a worthy place among the "leading nations"

Establishing ethnographic museums

Implementing Russian military strategies in the Steppe

Supporting Russian scientific expeditions

Promoting Qazaq folklore in European journals

They resisted the imperial policy in the region

Acted as intermediaries between the colonial administration and the Kazakhs

Were active conductors of Russian education in the steppe

Led anti-colonial popular movements

They were fluent in Russian

They were Chinghisids

They served in the colonial administration

They were graduates of Russian educational institutions

They participated in Russian military campaigns

The Conquest of Kazan

The Siege of Astrakhan

The Treaty of Kazan

The Battle of Talas

The closure of mosques and madrassas

The decrease of nomadic practices

The decline of trade and settlement activities

The expansion of commercial activity and settlement by Russian subjects

To adjust the demography of the steppes

To get rid of sectarian violence in the region

To pacify the steppes

To integrate Kazakhs better into the Russian state