Process of Institutionalization of the Union of Artists of the Kazakh ASSR/SSR in the Middle and Second Half of the 1930s.

The article examines the process of institutionalization of the Union of Soviet Artists of the Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic/SSR, which occurred in the mid and second half of the 1930s. Based on a systematic approach, an analysis of the main stages of the process under study was carried out: from the stage of preparatory work to the adoption of a control system and the status-role structure of the Union. It was revealed that the final stage, the 1938-1940s, became the most productive under the chairmanship of V.N. Sladkov, when the foundations of the social prestige of the organization were formed, significant events were held: the republican art exhibition of 1940, first congress of the Union of artists of Kazakhstan, and the regional structure of the Union was formed. A set of external and internal factors influencing the process of institutionalization of a republican organization has been identified, including nominal legal independence and weak support from departmental organizations.