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Turar Ryskulov

1894–1938 · 20th century

Turar Ryskulov was a Kazakh revolutionary and Soviet statesman. As a leading Muslim communist he headed the government bodies of the Turkestan ASSR in the early 1920s and proposed a Turkic Soviet republic, which Moscow rejected as nationalist. He later served as deputy head of the government of the Russian SFSR and protested about the famine caused by collectivisation in Kazakhstan. He was arrested in 1937 and shot in 1938.

Turar Ryskulov
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Turkestan ASSR

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