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'''Orazak Ismagulov''' (born 1930) is an internationally known{{fact|date=March 2014}}  [[anthropologist]], doctor of historical sciences (1984), corresponding member of the [[Kazakhstan National Academy of Sciences]] (1994). Ismagulov uses anthropological studies of [[ancient]] and modern people as a source of historical information for [[ethnogenesis]] and [[ethnic]] [[history]] of the [[Central Asia]] peoples. This work shed light on the origin of the [[Scythians]], [[Sarmatians]], [[Kangar people|Kangars]], [[Alans]], and other [[Central Asia]] peoples, following the anthropological development from the ancient to the modern times in the Central Asia.

From 1960, Ismagulov was a permanent participant and a head of anthropological expeditions in [[Kazakhstan]] and beyond: [[India]]n-[[Soviet Union|Soviet]] (1974-1975), [[Kazakhstan|Kazakh]]-[[Mongolia]]n (1991-1993), [[Kazakhstan|Kazakh]]-[[Italy|Italian]] (1993-1994). In the 1993-1994, within the framework of scientific cooperation with the Institute of Anthropology at the Bolonia University in Italy, Ismagulov headed an international project for problems of adaptation of high-mountain [[Kazakhstan]] and [[Kyrgyzstan]] populations in respect to ethno-cultural processes in the region.

Ismagulov is the author of about 100 scientific works. Among them a special place takes a compendium of [[monograph]]s for [[Craniology|craniological]] series, genetic markers, and [[Odontology|odontological]] attributes, compiled to establish a [[Genetics|genetic]] continuity between ancient and modern populations of the Middle Asia, integrity of the historical process, study the Kazakh genetic fund, and the sources of its formation, and major historical phases of Kazakhstan local ancient populations and newcoming ethnic groups from [[Central Asia]]. Ismagulov is a frequent lecturer about [[anthropology]] in [[Delhi]], [[California]] and [[Bologna|Bolonia]] universities.

==Main scientific works== 

* Population of Kazakhstan from Bronze Epoch to present: (paleoanthropological research). Alma-Ata, 1970. 
* Ethnic genetic geography of Kazakhstan: (serological research). Alma-Ata, 1977. 
* Ethnic anthropology of Kazakhstan: (somatological research). Alma-Ata, 1982. 
* Ethnic odontology of Kazakhstan. Alma-Ata, 1989. (co-author).

==References==
* [http://www.unesco.kz/heritagenet/kz/participant/scientists/ismagulov.htm Исмагулов Оразак] {{ru icon}}
*[http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/journal/issues/v63n6/970820/970820.web.pdf Trading Genes along the Silk Road: mtDNA Sequences and the Origin of Central Asian Population] Am. J. Hum. Genet. 63:1824–1838, 1998.
*Jeannine Davis-Kimball. "Chieftain or Warrior Priestess" Archaeology, September 1997: 40-41. [http://www.csen.org/Articles_Reivews/GoldMan_review.html Article Review from the Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads]. 
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