Akhmet Baitursynov

Akhmet Baitursynov was born in 1872 or 1873 in the Turgai oblast; his father, who had resisted the police, was exiled to Siberia for fifteen years. Trained at the teachers' school in Orenburg, he became a schoolteacher, was exiled from the steppe in 1909, founded the newspaper Qazaq in Orenburg in 1913 and translated Krylov's fables into Kazakh. A leader of the Alash autonomy, then commissar for Education after 1919, he adapted the Arabic alphabet to Kazakh. Arrested during the Great Terror, he was shot in Alma-Ata on 8 December 1937.

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