Kazakhstan's population includes an ethnic group.
Kazakhstan is multiethnic country where the indigenous ethnic group - the Kazakhs , comprise the majority of the population . The Kazakhs ( also spelled Kazaks , Qazaqs ; Қазақ , قازاق , Қазақтар , قازاقتار ; the English name is transliterated from Russian ) are a Turkic people who mainly inhabit the southern part of Eastern Europe Ural mountains and northern parts of Central Asia ( largely Kazakhstan , but also found in parts of Uzbekistan , China , Russia and Mongolia ) , the region also known as Eurasian sub-continent . Kazakhstan . The Russians began advancing into the Kazakh steppe in the 18th century , and by the mid-19th century , they nominally ruled all of Kazakhstan as part of the Russian Empire .