THE HISTORY OF SEMIRECHENSK COSSACK ARMY
This article attempts to trace the history of Semirechensk Cossack Army through the prism of the common destiny of the Russian Cossacks. The article considers the conditions of Cossack colonization of the region by occasional visits by individual Cossacks of Issyk- Kul region and until the occurrence of dense ring of Cossack villages along the border of the Kirgiz-Kazakh nomads, as well as the reasons for the revival of this unique socio- cultural phenomenon in the end of 1980s.