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Abdurauf Fitrat

Died in 1938

Abdurauf Fitrat was born in 1886 in Bukhara, into a merchant family. Trained at the madrasa, he left to study in Istanbul around 1909 and stayed there until 1913, active in the educational society founded there by his compatriots. Back home, he was one of the leaders of the Young Bukharans, then a minister of the People's Republic of Bukhara, and afterwards taught in Samarkand and Tashkent. He also wrote for the theatre. Arrested in 1937 during the purges, he was shot in Tashkent in 1938.

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