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Kyrgyzstan

Author · Kyrgyzstan

Barpy Alykulov

Died in 1949

Barpy Alykulov was born in 1884 in the village of Atchy, in what is now the Suzak district, the son of a poor peasant, and worked from the age of eight as a servant for the bays. By sixteen his reputation as a singer and improviser was established. A master of the sung contest, he took it to a level that the country's literary history still recognises. After the revolution, he chaired the poor peasants' committee of his district and joined the Union of Soviet Writers in 1947. He died on 9 November 1949 in Frunze.

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