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Saken Seifullin

Died in 1938

Saken Seifullin, born Sadvakas, was born on 15 October 1894 at the winter camp of Karachilik, in the Chet region. Trained at the Omsk teachers' seminary from 1913 to 1916, he published his first collection of verse in 1914. Commissar for Education of Akmolinsk in 1917, he was held prisoner by the Whites and escaped from an Omsk prison in the spring of 1919. Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Kazakh republic in 1922, he had Kazakh adopted in the offices and founded the Writers' Union. Arrested during the Great Terror, he was shot in Alma-Ata in 1938, then rehabilitated posthumously.

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