Novels of modern Kazakh prose are the result of creative work in the system of national and world literary processes. The works of modern writers, who are followers of artists who described various periods in the history of the Kazakh people, have a direct impact on the formation and renewal of the historical and national consciousness of the current reader.   The article examines the features of the image of historical reality and artistic solutions in modern Kazakh novels, reveals how documentary is combined in them with artistic fiction. The analysis is performed on a material of novels Sabit Dosanov "Kylburau", “Yiyk". The article analyzes how modern Kazakh novels depict human life against the background of nature, how national and ethnographic traditions relate to the realities of time, and other features of the aesthetics of the artistic solution. The authors also note that in these works, writers try to create literary and artistic images of Alash leaders Alikhan Bokeikhanov, Akhmet Baitursynov and other historical figures.