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Akhmet Baitursynov
Akhmet Baitursynov was a Kazakh scholar, poet and politician, a founder of the Alash party and a leader of the Alash Orda government. He reformed the Arabic-based Kazakh alphabet, wrote pioneering grammars of the Kazakh language and edited the newspaper Qazaq from 1913. After Alash accepted Soviet rule he worked in education, but he was later arrested and shot in 1937 during Stalin's purges.
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