Published on and written by Cyril Jarnias
The territory of modern Kazakhstan is one of the richest in Eurasia in historical layers. Between the endless steppe, the Tian Shan mountains, and the shores of the Caspian Sea, it has seen the passage of prehistoric hunters, Scythian horsemen, Genghisid khans, Russian colonizers, and Soviet engineers. To understand the country’s history is to trace both the birth of a people, the transformations of a space at the crossroads of empires, and the decisive role of this region on the great Eurasian stage, notably through the Silk Road.
From the First Inhabitants to the Bronze Age
Long before the khanates and caravans, the Kazakh steppe has been a territory occupied by humans for hundreds of thousands of years. The oldest traces point to Homo erectus, present in the Karatau mountains and around the Caspian and Lake Balkhash between 1 million and 800,000 years ago. Later, Neanderthals occupied the same areas from 140,000 to 40,000 BCE, before being succeeded by Homo sapiens from about 40,000 years ago.
Between 12,500 and 5,000 BCE, global warming allowed hunter-gatherers to spread and innovate (bow, traps, boat, domestication of the wolf). This period saw the gradual rooting of the Neolithic Revolution in this territory, with the emergence of herding and agriculture, carried by cultures such as Atbasar, Kelteminar, Botai, and Ust-Narym.
The Botai culture, dated to around 3600–3100 BC, plays a crucial role for world history: it is now considered one of the very first centers of horse domestication. Recent excavations, notably at the Novoilinovsky 2 cemetery, have shown that Andronovo populations were already riding horses earlier than previously thought, confirming the pioneering role of the Kazakh steppe in equestrian culture.
From the second millennium BCE, central Kazakhstan saw the development of metallurgy with copper production, the use of casting molds, and the exploitation of mineral deposits. A period of drought at the end of this millennium then caused population movements northward. On this basis, the great Bronze Age cultures developed, such as Andronovo, Srubna, and Afanasevo, which spread over a vast part of Eurasia.
Sakas, Scythians, and the First Kingdoms of the Steppe
From the first millennium BC, the human landscape of Kazakhstan became structured around Iranian equestrian peoples, often designated by Greek sources as Scythians, and locally called Sakas. These nomadic or semi-nomadic groups excelled in the art of mounted warfare, archery, and goldsmithing.
Excavations of necropolises like Berel or Issyk, the source of the famous “Golden Man,” confirm the artistic level of these elites and the symbolic importance of the horse. The Besshatyr mounds, dated to the 7th–4th centuries BC, align monumental Saka tombs at the foot of Altyn-Emel, forming a veritable necropolis of chieftains.
Several political formations (Yancai, Kangju) appeared on the margins of the future Kazakh region. It was simultaneously under the influence of the Achaemenid Persian Empire to the south and Han China to the east, which established in the 1st century BC a Protectorate of the Western Regions up to the gates of the Kazakh steppes.
Between 500 BC and 500 AD, the territory of present-day Kazakhstan saw the succession of Sakas and Huns. The latter, originating south and southeast of the Altai, formed, from the 2nd century BC, a vast political entity that would radiate as far as Central Europe under the leadership of Attila. At the same time, other groups – Alans, Aorsi, Issedones, Massagetae – crossed the region, participating in what historians call the great migration of peoples.
The Rise of the Turkic Khaganates and the Medieval Mosaic
From the 6th century AD, the political center of gravity shifted: the dominant elites were no longer Iranian, but Turkic. The First Turkic Khaganate, founded around 552, rapidly extended its power westward. However, it split into an eastern and a western khaganate, the latter largely covering southern and southeastern Kazakhstan. Its capital, Suyab, was located on the banks of the Chu River, in the heart of Semirechye (Zhetysu).
The Battle of Talas in 751 put an end to China’s direct influence in Central Asia and paved the way for the Islamization of the region.
From the 8th to the 10th centuries, the Kazakh space was shared between several powers: in the west, the Oghuz state, founded around 766 with Jankent as its capital; in the northeast, the Kimak and Kipchak confederations; in the south, the Qarluqs and, later, the powerful Qarakhanid state which controlled Transoxiana and adopted Islam. In the 12th century, the Qarakhanids were themselves overthrown by the Kara-Khitans from northern China, while an independent Khwarazm expanded along the Amu Darya.
This mosaic of Turkic, Iranian, and Mongol powers set the stage for a decisive clash: the campaigns of Genghis Khan.
The Mongol Impact and the Legacy of the Golden Horde
Between 1219 and 1221, the armies of Genghis Khan swept over Central Asia. Otrar, a great trading city at the confluence of the Arys and Syr Darya rivers and the birthplace of the philosopher al-Farabi, was besieged and destroyed after a fierce resistance of about six months. The territory of Kazakhstan was incorporated into the Mongol Empire, within the ulus of Jochi, the conqueror’s eldest son.
At the end of the 13th century, the fragmentation of the Mongol Empire gave birth to the Golden Horde, an autonomous state. In the 14th century, under Uzbeg Khan, Islam became the state religion, creating an influential Turco-Mongol Muslim tradition. The ancestral peoples of the Kazakhs, Uzbeks, and Tatars then shared a Turkic language, a political structure derived from Genghis Khan, and Sunni Islam.
Genetic research confirms that the formation of the Kazakh ethnicity occurred between the 13th and 15th centuries, at the junction of this Mongol heritage and the ancient Turkic tribes of the steppe. When the Golden Horde disintegrated in the 15th century, the former Jochid space fragmented into multiple khanates, one of which, the Uzbek Khanate, covered most of present-day Kazakhstan.
It is within this Uzbek Khanate that, through dissent, the future Kazakh state was born.
Birth of the Kazakh Khanate and the Building of an Identity
Around the mid-15th century, two princes descended from Urus Khan, Kerey and Janibek, broke with the rule of Abu’l-Khair, leader of the Uzbek Khanate. Dissatisfied with his policies, they took with them about 200,000 nomads and found refuge in Moghulistan, where Khan Esen Buga granted them pastures between the Chu and Talas rivers. This population movement, sometimes called the “great migration,” marks the birth of the Kazakh Khanate, dated to around 1465.
At the turn of the 16th century, the khanate reached its peak, its territory stretching from the Caspian Sea to the Irtysh and Altai, and controlling most of the Kipchak steppe.
Kazakh Khanate under Kasym Khan
Chroniclers of the time, such as Mirza Muhammad Haidar in the Tarikh-i Rashidi, describe Kasym as the master of Dasht-i Kipchak, at the head of an impressive army. Many historians see in his reign the moment when the Kazakh Khanate became a fully distinct state, additionally endowed with a first code of laws, the Qasym Khannyn Qasqa Zholy (“the brilliant path of Kasym Khan”), which codified Kazakh customary and Islamic law.
Gradually, the ethnonym “Kazakh,” derived from a Turkic root meaning “free,” “independent,” or “wanderer,” shifted from an external label (“Kazakh-Uzbek”) to a self-designation. This evolution continued over about a century, as the khanate consolidated politically and socially.
Fragmentation into Three Jüzes and Steppe Wars
After the death of Kasym, the khanate entered a phase of turmoil. The khan’s sons disputed power, opening a period of civil wars. Between 1522 and 1538, unity unraveled and the state structure reformed around three large tribal confederations, the jüzes or hordes:
| Jüz (Horde) | Main Historical Location |
|---|---|
| Great (Senior) | Southeastern Kazakhstan, north of the Tian Shan, near Zhetysu |
| Middle | Central steppe, from the Aral Sea to the central foothills |
| Lesser (Junior) | Western Kazakhstan, between the Aral Sea and the Ural (Zhayik) River |
These three entities, simultaneously political, territorial, and genealogical, would remain a fundamental matrix of Kazakh social organization into the contemporary era.
Haqnazar, the youngest son of Kasym to become khan (1538–1580), managed to temporarily reunite the *jüzes* (hordes). He extended Kazakh influence over neighboring peoples like the Bashkirs, Kyrgyz, and Nogais, and his authority reached as far as the regions of Kazan, Siberia, and Astrakhan. However, this hegemony remained fragile as it largely relied on the collection of often heavy tributes, provoking resistance among the subjected populations.
In the 17th century, external pressure intensified, mainly from the Oirats and their Dzungar Khanate, a confederation of western Mongol tribes on a military ascent. This marked the beginning of a long cycle of destructive wars.
Kazakhstan, Pivot of the Silk Roads
Alongside these political reconfigurations, the Kazakh region played a major role in Eurasian exchanges. At the heart of the land corridors, southern Kazakhstan constituted one of the great arteries of the Silk Road. This vast network, active from the 2nd century BC to the 15th century, connected China, Central Asia, Persia, the Caucasus, and Europe over more than 6,000 kilometers of trade routes.
Kazakh Corridors and Itineraries
Several routes crossed what is now Kazakhstan. Among the most important, UNESCO inscribed the Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang’an-Tianshan Corridor in 2014, a transnational corridor shared between China, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Stretching some 5,000 km, it linked the ancient Chinese capital Chang’an to Kazakh Zhetysu, via mountain passes and oases.
Other corridors structured movement across the steppe:
| Silk Road Corridor | Area Crossed in Kazakhstan | Main Role |
|---|---|---|
| Chang’an–Tianshan | Zhetysu (Semirechye), Southeastern Kazakhstan | Major Axis China – Central Asia – Europe |
| Syrdaria | Towns along the Syr Darya (Otrar, Sauran, Syganak, etc.) | Chain of caravan cities and agricultural centers |
| Saryarka | Central steppe (Desht-i Kypchak) | Northern steppe route toward the Irtysh and Siberia |
| Mangyshlak | Eastern shore of the Caspian, deserts of Mangystau | Link between Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Caspian/Iranian worlds |
In detail, finer networks emerged. The Semirechye route, for example, linked Shasha (Tashkent) to Turbat, Sayram (Ispijab), Taraz, then, via Kulan, Mirki, Aspara, the western shore of Lake Issyk-Kul and the Santash Pass toward the Ili Valley. Other routes, like the Sarysu road or the Khanzhol route, connected the urban centers of the south (Otrar, Shavgar) to passes leading to central and northern Kazakhstan, opening toward the Irtysh and the lands of the Kimaks.
The density of the caravan network in Kazakhstan transformed supply stops into towns, illustrating how trade exchanges stimulated urbanization. Caravans would reorganize their cargo there, making these relay stations economic hubs that gradually became sedentary and developed.
Caravan Cities and Urban Heritage
Many cities mentioned in medieval sources are located in present-day Kazakhstan. Some are now major archaeological sites, sometimes inscribed as World Heritage.
| Urban / Archaeological Site | Main Period | Role on the Silk Roads |
|---|---|---|
| Otrar (Farab) | 8th–13th centuries and beyond | Commercial crossroads, cultural center, birthplace of al-Farabi |
| Taraz | Over 2,000 years | Major caravan city, mausoleums from the 11th–12th centuries |
| Sayram (Ispijab) | Mentioned from the 7th century | Fortified city, preserved gates, mausoleums, and minarets |
| Yassy (Turkestan) | Approx. 1,500 years of major role | Muslim spiritual center, capital of Turco-Mongol dynasties |
| Kayalyk | 11th–13th centuries | Karluk capital, large city in the Ili Valley, visited by William of Rubruck |
| Talgar | 8th–14th centuries | Fortified city, Turkic, Arabic, Chinese, and Khitan inscriptions |
| Kulan | 8th–13th centuries | City with a Zoroastrian fire temple and a large bazaar |
| Ornek | 8th–12th centuries | Interface between nomads and city-dwellers, base of the ancient Turks |
| Karamergen | 9th–13th centuries | Major agricultural center in the Ili delta |
| Zhankent (Yangikent) | 1st–10th centuries | Capital of the Oghuz state in the 10th century, largest city on the lower Syr Darya |
| Saraychik | 13th–16th centuries | City on the Zhayik, commercial and political center of the Golden Horde |
Turkestan, where the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi (a UNESCO site) stands, became from the 14th century a major spiritual center of Sufi Islam, attracting pilgrims and rulers who wished to be buried there. The proximity of sites like Otrar or Sauran testifies to the urban density of the region along these caravan routes.
Excavations of ancient cities have revealed a wealth of artifacts testifying to the region’s economic, cultural, and social activity.
Discovery of various coins: Turgesh, Tang, Khwarazmian, Bukharan, and Qarakhanid, illustrating the extent of trade networks.
Objects made of ceramics, bronze, and iron, as well as belt plaques, revealing the craftsmanship and technologies of the time.
Unearthing of sophisticated irrigation networks, demonstrating advanced mastery of water management for agriculture.
At Sidak, tamgas (clan signs engraved on pottery) illustrate the tribal structure and identity in trade.
Goods, Ideas, and Beliefs
On these Kazakh routes traveled not only caravans laden with silk, but also a wide range of products. From the east came tea, dyes, perfumes, porcelain, paper, gunpowder, lacquerware, rice, metal objects. From the west came horses, camels, honey, wine, gold, glassware, leather. To these were added weapons, medicines, spices, furs, precious stones, ivory, and even slaves.
Initially, exchanges of silk for jade or Arabian horses formed the core of the system. But very quickly, the network became a vector for immaterial circulations. The routes crossing Kazakhstan saw the diffusion of Buddhism, Christianity, Manichaeism, and Islam. Cities like Kayalyk housed mosques, Buddhist temples, and churches, illustrating remarkable religious tolerance and the coexistence of diverse communities.
Intellectual innovations followed the same path: algebra, papermaking, as well as medical and astronomical knowledge passed through these corridors. It was thus that the Islamic world, and then Europe, appropriated certain Chinese inventions. The routes also served as a mirror for the spread of diseases: the plague circulated there, and the medieval Black Death may be linked to these flows.
Nomads, Sedentary Peoples, and Empires: An Unstable Balance
If the Silk Road cities embodied sedentary life, military strength often resided in the nomadic confederations of the steppe. The Sakas, then the Huns, Turks, Oghuz, Kipchaks, Mongols, and later the Kazakhs structured the space, controlled pastures, tributes, and the safety of the routes. The Sogdians, the quintessential caravan merchants between the 4th and 8th centuries, often operated as intermediaries, their language becoming a lingua franca of trans-Asian trade.
The Kazakh Khanate fit fully into this logic. It derived its power from the mobility of its horsemen, mastery of pastoral routes, and control of key points on trade circuits. Its economy was based on herding (horses, sheep, camels), but also on taxes levied on caravans crossing its territory.
Relations with neighbors – Nogais, Bukhara, Siberia, Moghulistan – were marked by an alternation of wars and alliances, in a constantly renegotiated balance. The political system was a semi-elective monarchy: only male descendants of Genghis Khan could claim the title of khan, but their authority depended on the support of clan chiefs, sultans, and biys (judges and mediators).
The Dzungar Wars and the “Great Catastrophe”
From the mid-17th century, the very existence of the Kazakh Khanate was threatened by the Dzungar Khanate, a powerful Oirat state dominating the borderlands between steppe and mountains. Hostilities began in earnest around 1643. The Kazakhs suffered major setbacks in the early 18th century, to the point that the invasion of 1723 remained in collective memory as the “Aktaban Shubyryndy,” literally “the years of the great trampling,” often translated as “years of great destruction” or “great catastrophe.” Entire tribes were massacred or forced into exile.
The Kazakhs, led by Khan Abul Khair, won decisive victories against the Dzungars at the Bulanty River (1726) and at Añyraqai (1729). The leader Ablai distinguished himself there and was proclaimed a batyr (hero). These wars ended with the intervention of the Qing dynasty, which annihilated the Dzungar Khanate between 1757 and 1758.
This turning point, however, opened a new era of dependency, as Ablai, having become khan of the Middle Horde, now had to deal with two giants: the Russian Empire to the north and the Qing to the east and southeast. He accepted Russian suzerainty as early as 1740, while also recognizing the authority of Emperor Qianlong, playing a fragile balancing game to preserve a margin of autonomy.
The Russian Advance and the End of the Kazakh Khanate
Contact with Russia dates back to well before Ablai’s time: from the 17th century, Russian merchants and Cossacks settled on the northwestern margins, founding posts that would give rise to towns like Oral (Yaitsk) or Atyrau (Guryev). From 1730, this contact transformed into political domination. Abul Khair, hoping for support against the Dzungars and other rivals, sought the protection of Empress Anna Ioannovna. In 1731, the Lesser Horde swore allegiance to Russia. The Middle Horde followed from 1740, the Great Horde in the 1820s.
This “protection” quickly translated into increasing control. The empire built a line of forts along the Irtysh, with strongholds like Omsk, Semipalatinsk, or Ust-Kamenogorsk. The reform of 1822, known as the “Charter on the Siberian Kirghiz,” abolished the institution of the khan in the Middle Horde, replaced by an imperial administration in districts and volosts. The Lesser Horde was in turn deprived of its khan in 1824, the Great Horde in 1848.
The year of Kenesary Qasymov’s death, symbolically marking the end of the Kazakh khanate.
By the end of the 19th century, the entire Kazakh steppe was integrated into the Russian Empire. The region was divided between the Governor-Generalship of the Steppe and that of Russian Turkestan. The construction of the Orenburg–Tashkent railway, completed in 1906, accelerated agrarian colonization: over half a million Russian and Slavic peasant families settled between 1906 and 1912, encroaching on traditional pastures and disrupting the nomadic way of life.
Colonization, Revolts, and the Soviet Experience
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw the emergence of a Kazakh intelligentsia educated in Russian schools, which attempted to combine modernity and traditions. Figures like Shoqan Walikhanov and Abay Qunanbaiuly adapted European ideas to the steppe context, reinterpreted the past, and advocated for education, reform, and national dignity.
World War I and the decision to mobilize Central Asian populations for military labor provoked, in 1916, a great revolt across the steppe. The repression was brutal, causing thousands of deaths and forcing many Kazakhs to flee to China or Mongolia.
After the 1917 revolution, several political projects emerged. The most emblematic was that of Alash Orda, an autonomous government formed by Kazakh elites to obtain broad autonomy within a federal Russia. Championed by intellectuals like Alikhan Bukeikhanov, Ahmet Baitursynov, or Mirjaqip Dulatov, this project was finally crushed by the Bolsheviks in 1920.
Kazakhstan then entered the Soviet period. The Kyrgyz Autonomous Republic (which in reality concerned the Kazakhs, then often confused with the Kyrgyz) was proclaimed in 1920 within the RSFSR, renamed the Kazakh Autonomous Republic in 1925, then elevated in 1936 to the status of a full Soviet Socialist Republic.
Collectivization and Famine: The Tragedy of the Asharshylyk
The implementation of Stalinist policies of collectivization and sedentarization, from the late 1920s, had a devastating effect on Kazakh society. The official goal was to modernize agriculture, eradicate “backward nomadism,” and integrate the steppe into the planned economic system. In practice, the massive confiscation of livestock, the forced settlement of populations, and unrealistic delivery quotas led to a humanitarian catastrophe.
Estimated number of deaths during the Asharshylyk famine in Kazakhstan between 1929 and 1933, representing between one-fifth and one-third of the population.
This famine transformed the Kazakhs into a minority in their own land, in a context where industrialization and settlement policies also encouraged the installation of Russian and Ukrainian colonists. Today, this tragedy is commemorated every May 31st, a day dedicated to the victims of political repression and famine.
Repressions, Deportations, and Industrialization
Kazakh land became one of the main theaters of the Soviet repressive system. At least eleven major Gulag camps were established there, including the gigantic Karlag, through which more than a million prisoners passed. Specific camps, like ALZHIR – reserved for the wives of “traitors to the motherland” – illustrate the logic of collective guilt.
Between the late 1930s and mid-1940s, over a million people (Koreans, Germans, Crimean Tatars, Poles, Chechens, Ingush, etc.) were forcibly deported to Kazakhstan. These displacements, combined with Tsarist colonization and the famines, made the country a veritable ethnic patchwork.
At the same time, Kazakhstan became a major industrial center of the USSR. Karaganda and Ekibastuz coal mines, metallurgical complexes, Caspian oil: the republic was transformed into a resource extraction platform. During World War II, numerous factories were evacuated here from the western part of the Union, further strengthening the industrial base.
The 1950s saw the launch of the Virgin Lands Campaign, aiming to cultivate wheat in the northern steppes. This policy attracted several hundred thousand new Slavic settlers and further disrupted the demographic balance. By the late 1950s, Russians represented about 43% of the population, Kazakhs barely 30%.
Number of nuclear explosions conducted at the Semipalatinsk test site between 1949 and 1989.
Rise of National Consciousness and Path to Independence
Despite repression and linguistic Russification, Kazakh culture endured and renewed itself. Literature, music, cinema became spaces for reflection on identity, embodied by figures like Mukhtar Auezov or Gabit Musirepov. The Kazakh political elite also gained visibility: Dinmukhamed Kunayev led the Communist Party of Kazakhstan for nearly thirty years and sat on the Soviet Politburo.
In December 1986, the abrupt removal of Kunayev by Mikhail Gorbachev, replaced by a Russian apparatchik foreign to the republic, triggered in Alma-Ata the Jeltoqsan demonstrations. The repression resulted in several deaths and hundreds of wounded and detainees. This event, the first mass uprising in the USSR against a decision from the center, marked a turning point: it is often seen as the prelude to the Soviet collapse and later became a founding symbol for independent Kazakhstan.
At the turn of the 1990s, environmental movements against nuclear testing (Nevada–Semipalatinsk) and mobilization in the face of the Aral Sea’s disappearance contributed to anchoring a distinct political consciousness. On October 25, 1990, Kazakhstan proclaimed its sovereignty within the USSR. On December 16, 1991, it declared its independence, the last of the former Soviet territories to take this step.
From Independence to the Modern State
Upon becoming a sovereign republic, Kazakhstan inherited both a millennia-old past of empires, caravan routes, and nomadism, and a heavy Soviet legacy: industrial infrastructure, military bases, nuclear arsenals, but also social and ecological fractures. Nursultan Nazarbayev, former first secretary of the local communist party, became the country’s first president and undertook a vast project of state-building.
In 1994, through the Budapest Memorandum, the country committed to dismantling its nuclear weapons. It also gradually closed and cleaned up the Semipalatinsk site, thus positioning itself as an actor in international nuclear non-proliferation.
Concurrently, Kazakhstan moved its capital from Almaty to Akmola in 1997, renamed Astana in 1998. This new capital in the heart of the steppe symbolized a form of geopolitical “re-centering,” and the will to build a national identity oriented toward the future, while taking into account the demographic balance between the Russian-speaking north and the Kazakh-speaking south. The city would change names again – Nur-Sultan, then back to Astana – according to political shifts.
Within the framework of the New Silk Road, oil has become the “new silk,” and large companies, notably Chinese, play a significant role in Kazakhstan’s energy sector.
Economic Analysts
On the diplomatic front, the country adopted a “multi-vector foreign policy,” seeking to balance relations with Russia, China, the West, and the Muslim world. A member of multiple regional organizations – CIS, SCO, Eurasian Economic Union, CSTO – but also engaged within the UN, OSCE, or the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Kazakhstan positions itself as a mediator and crossroads.
Memory, Heritage, and Historical Continuity
The country’s history is neither solely the Kazakh national narrative, nor solely the Soviet legacy. It is made of superimposed layers that contemporary society seeks to revisit and valorize.
Material heritage, long neglected, now takes a central place. The country counts over 25,000 registered historical and cultural monuments, several of which are UNESCO sites. The Silk Road, through the Chang’an-Tian Shan corridor and the recognition of cities like Otrar, Kayalyk, Talgar, or Akyrtas, has become a powerful vector for highlighting the medieval past.
Mausoleums like that of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi in Turkestan, the Issyk Golden Man, the Tamgaly petroglyphs, or the Saka mounds of Besshatyr provide tangible anchors for a narrative that goes back to the Sakas and Andronovians. The tombs of Jochi Khan or Alasha Khan, the underground mosques of Mangystau, the ruins of Ablaykit bear witness to the multiple religious and political strata that succeeded one another.
Modern Kazakhstan thus attempts to hold these dimensions together: the ancient nomadic and caravan world, the Genghisid and Islamic heritage of the Kazakh Khanate, Soviet industrial modernity, and the ambitions of an independent state at the heart of Eurasia. A constant runs through the centuries: the capacity of this space, at the crossroads of the Silk Roads and the steppes, to absorb, transform, and redistribute influences and power.
The history of the country remains a work in progress. But whether it’s the first horsemen of Botai, the Sogdian merchants of Otrar, the khans descended from Jochi, the Jeltoqsan demonstrators, or the builders of Astana, all participate in the same fabric: that of a territory which has never ceased to be a crossroads, and continues to be so in the era of the “New Silk Roads.”
The History of Kazakhstan
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