The history of the specialty dates back to the opening of Tselinograd pedagogical Institute and its formation as a higher educational institution in the Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1962, the first set of students in the number of 50 people in the specialty ''History'' was made at the faculty of history and Philology. Since 1992, the Department of history of Kazakhstan was headed by candidate of historical Sciences, associate Professor M. M. Zhanpeisova'