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Ilyas Zhansugurov

Died in 1938

Ilyas Zhansugurov was born on 1 May 1894 in an aul of the Aksu volost, in Semirechye. A poet, journalist and playwright, he was from 1934 to 1936 the first president of the Writers' Union of Kazakhstan. Repressed in 1937, his writings judged nationalist, he was shot in Alma-Ata on 26 February 1938; his manuscripts were seized. His family received confirmation of his rehabilitation in the spring of 1957, and his poems reappeared in a volume the same year.

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