Respondent - Ozanbay Karimuly, born in 1947 in Zhetizhar village, Beskaragai district, East Kazakhstan region. <br> I am a descendant of Batyr Shynkozh, who lived 30 km from Ayagoz, from the Naiman clan, subgenus Karakerei-Tumasyn. Respondents name the reasons for the migration of their ancestors in the 20-the 30s of the 20th century from Kazakhstan to China: In 1932, my two grandfathers and grandmothers moved to China from the Ayagoz area during the period of confiscation, they were bais, they had a lot of cattle.<br> <br> What do you remember about the resettlement itself? What is it that is remembered?<br> <br> When I was 14-15 years old, I heard about 1-2 people, Kazakhs crossing the border, mostly young people. So, we 5-6 teenagers decided to cross the border. When we approached the border, we wondered why we were only crossing by ourselves, when our mothers were left behind. And we went back. The population started to make noise. There was a commotion about crossing the border. On the seventh day, the border was opened, and in May, those who had time were able to cross. We had two brothers, a mother, a stepfather, an uncle (he was a veterinarian), and the uncle's wife went to the border at night, with a cow and small belongings. At the border, the Chinese border guards wouldn't let us through. There were a lot of people at the border. If people came up, they couldn't hear anything. After some time, they started letting us through, there were a lot of people and animals passing through.<br> <br> In 1962, when it became known that the borders had opened, it was not calm in Chuguchak, the Chinese appeared, and there was no food, and every day 10-20 military vehicles brought people, these were adult Chinese and their children from Inner China. There are many of them in the city. Our Chinese (who lived with us in Chuguchak) did not like them (the newly arrived Chinese). We didn't like the Chinese. We didn't like them because they eat everything. So, we decided to run away from the Chinese, to return to the homeland of our ancestors. There are 6 family graves left in China. Grandfather, father, two aunts, 2 sisters, and a brother remained in China. Grandpa predicted that they would not be able to return, but we could return to our homeland. Before us, my mother's relatives crossed over to Kazakhstan. Telmukhamed, a relative of Akhmetov's mother, was a consul in China, who died in Almaty, I did not see him, but I heard that his children live in Almaty. All relatives, the mother is from Makanchi, and the father is a descendant of batyr Shankozhi.<br> <br> We had to go back, just as our grandfathers had once fled to China. After crossing the border - I lived in Semijarka and worked in Zagotzerno as a locksmith. Then my mother and stepfather, my sister talked about the fact that we had no cow and consequently no milk. In 1965 it was decided to join a collective farm. Then they gave us a house and one cow. My mother's relatives also came to Semijarka at first, then they moved to Makanchi. I worked as a doctor in Karabulak on the Jarmaly state farm, my father was in Semijarka. That's how we stayed here from that time, raised cattle, and horses for 30 years, then sheep and cattle. When we came to Kazakhstan, I didn't go to school, I was undisciplined, and I told my brother I wouldn't study. I know Arabic script, and I can read books and newspapers using the new alphabet (Cyrillic alphabet), but I can't write. I was taken out of the Uyghur class in Chuguchak (my Uyghur stepfather gave me that class), explaining that I was Kazakh. Later they invited me to school again, but I didn't want to. The fact that we were from China and we were called "Chinese" stopped with time, they called that now, now with local Kazakhs became matchmakers, relatives. My brothers' daughters live in Makanchi village, Almaty, and teach at a school. Also, relatives work on television. Next May it will be 60 years since we came back. My father died when I was 2 and a half. My stepfather was of Uyghur nationality. He was a good man. He died in 2000, when he lived in China, my stepfather when he was 16 from a village outside Urumqi, was taken to the army supposedly to study, but he was sent to the army, he served in the Kuomintang army for 5 years, then in the PRC army for 6 years. There is a lot of talk about Ospan Batyr. He is from a kerei lineage, from Altai. He is a very legendary figure. I have read books about him. He was a warlike clan of the Abak Kerei. For example, he could quietly remove (disarm) a sentry from the tower at night with a simple harness. The Chinese fought with him for a very long time. My mother worked at the boarding school as a laundress in Semyarka, and my father was a stoker, delivering food. There were about 500 inmates in the boarding school who came from the regions of the region. No relatives remained in Chuguchak. I did not visit his birthplace, there was not a single soul there. My relatives offered to take me to China. Now repatriates come mainly from Ili – the Kulja region, they are local Kazakhs from China (lived there since ancient times), and like us migrated from Kazakhstan to China and from China to Kazakhstan. I asked them if there were people from Chuguchak, and they said that there were 1-2 people from Dorbujin.<br> <br> In Astana I have my wife's relatives, my father works for the ministry, and they were planning to write a book about horse breeding because I've been breeding horses for 30 years. In Pavlodar, the son of Akhmet Kayyrbaev, a Hero of the Soviet Union, Askar Kayyrbaev is writing a book about me, where I talk about the peculiarities of horse breeding. My wife died 6 years ago, we live with our son, it's hard without my wife.<br>