This article analyzes the colonial policy pursued by the Russian Empire in the Turkestan region from the 1860s to the beginning of the 1880s, particularly the land and water relations in the region, on the basis of the activities and the reports on the results of a special inspection commission headed by F.K. Girs, the Privy Councillor of the Russian Emperor, which was established by order of the Russian Emperor to inspect the Turkestan region in response to a special request by Lieutenant General M.G. Chernyayev, who assumed the post of Governor-General of Turkestan in 1882. The article also reveals the subject on the basis of contemporary sources, archival documents, and studies conducted in different periods.

Russian Empire, Turkestan, Governor-General, inspection, commission, community, agriculture, farming, land, property, waqf, water, irrigation, canal, ditch.

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