The Territorial Troops (Kazakh: aумақтық əскерлері, Russian: Территориальные войска) are a volunteer paramilitary service of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

There are currently 16 departmental like territorial defense brigades stationed in 14 regions, as well as the capital and largest city of Nur-Sultan and Almaty.

[3] On November 6, 2001, President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a secret presidential decree that called for a regulated organization to deal with defending the internal borders of Kazakh territory.

Just close to 15 years later, in December 2015, the president approved a concept developed by the military which provided the basis for the territorial troops.

For the first time in May 2017, a combined inter-regional contingent (East Kazakhstan, South Kazakhstan and the City of Astana) took part in the Defender of the Fatherland Day Military Parade on Astana's Independence Square, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the formation of the military.