Kazakhs and our ancestors were for a very ling time nomadic. Our culture is built around it in many ways that I don't want to delve into right now.
The reason for this is what the land we live on is: a steppe. It is not that good for agriculture because the climate is too harsh, and sometimes there isn't even enough water(most steppes in Kazakhstan are actually desert-steppes).
Even livestock isn't really that good, because they would feed to much, so staying in one place wasn't really possible.
The thing is, this wasn't like. Hundred people going randomly around all of Kazakh Khanate.
Imagine a family. They are one yurt. An aul might consist from a few of them or hundreds of them. Every family is a part of a tribe(it is a tad more complicated than this with multiple levels, cause genealogy was really well kept among common people) which has designated land for them.
Now, depending on the land they were on for hundreds of years, they might need to nomad(?)/move(this doesn't feel like a right verb) two or four times a year to their own pastures which are largely left vacant at other times. And they move, with their every belonging, their house and all of their livestock. There are some nuances like some permanent housing, and going into towns and trading, but this was largely it.
Just imagine the level of organisation needed for something like that, from both a family and the whole country to make sure that no one oversteps, everybody has enough, and can survive.
You won't find many nomads in Kazakhstan today however. There are some outside of it, but here it was made difficult by Russian Empire and then killed off by USSR entirely.
