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Mukhtar Auezov

Died in 1961

Mukhtar Auezov was born on 28 September 1897 in Ayakkaragan, in the Semipalatinsk region; his father died in 1900 and he was taught by his grandfather. Trained at the Semipalatinsk teachers' seminary, then at Leningrad University from 1923 to 1928, he continued his studies in Tashkent. Arrested in September 1930, he spent about two and a half years in detention; his works were removed from libraries in 1937. Dismissed from Alma-Ata University in 1953, he taught for two years in Moscow, where he died on 27 June 1961.

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