The aim of the article is to analyse the household relations and everyday life of the children of Kazakhstan in the post-World War II period until the 1970s, and their impact on shaping the worldview of the future "builders of socialism". The authors explore certain elements affecting the formation of the child's emotional world through the study of material and social components of the child's domestic space. The domestic space of the studied period was a unique phenomenon. It was a combination of the national rural traditions and the elements of urbanized culture, individualism and collectivism, and privacy and publicity. Based on their research findings, the authors come to the conclusion that the children’s domestic space of that time was characterised by the lack of many necessities and amenities, but, nevertheless, the majority of the interviewed respondents consider this period to be one of the best in their lives

everyday life, domestic objects and amenities, children’s domestic space, home, family celebrations.