The Russian empire conquered Central Asia between 1865 and 1876. For the next forty years most Russians who lived in Turkestan (as it was called until 1924) were soldiers, merchants, or government officials and their families. The first large wave of...

Kirgiz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Kirgiz ASSR) was the name of two different national entities within Russian SFSR, in the territories of modern Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. See articles Kazakh SSR and Kara-Kirgiz Autonomous Oblast, Kirgiz SSR,...