Saken Seifullin

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Saken Seifullin

Säken Seifollauly Seifullin ( Kazakh Сәкен Сейфоллаұлы Сейфуллин , Russian Сакен Сейфоллаевич Сейфуллин Saken Seifullin Seifollajewitsch * 15 October 1894 in the district of Akmola, Akmola Oblast, Russian Empire ; † 25. April 1938 in Alma-Ata , Kazakh SSR ) was a Kazakh poet, Writers and politicians . Today he is considered to be one of the founders of modern Kazakh literature.

Life

Saken Seifullin was born in 1894 in a village in Akmola District in Akmola Oblast in the Russian Empire. He first attended a Kazakh-Russian school and then a secondary school in Akmolinsk . From August 1913 he attended the teachers' college in Omsk .

In 1914 his first publication appeared in the magazine Aiqap . Together with Nyghmet Nurmaqow and Maghschan Schumabai, he actively participated in the founding of the educational and cultural organization Birlik , which was directed against the Russian Empire and instead disseminated the achievements of Kazakh people in the fields of culture and science. His first volume of poetry was published in 1914. From September 1916 he taught as a teacher at a school, which he himself helped found. In March 1917 Seifullin moved to Akmolinsk, where he greeted the February Revolution in a poem . In April 1917 he founded the socio-political and cultural society "Schasqasaq" (Жасқазақ), the aim of which was to promote the education of young people and their participation in political activities. In September he started giving three-month pedagogical courses at the Kazakh-Russian school in Akmolinsk.

When the Communist Bolsheviks came to power in Akmolinsk in December 1917 , Seifullin was elected to the Presidium of the Council of Representatives and at the same time appointed People's Commissar for Education. In 1918 he was accepted into the Russian Communist Party . After the White Army came to power in Akmolinsk in June 1918 , Seifullin was arrested and taken to a prison in Petropavlovsk . In April he escaped from the prison in Omsk , to which he had since been transferred. He reached his home village in July, but was again forced to flee to Aulije-Ata two months later .

At the beginning of 1920 he returned to Akmolinsk where he took an active part in the restoration of Soviet power. He was appointed deputy head of the Revolutionary Committee. When the Kyrgyz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was founded a little later , Seifullin was elected to the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee. Two years later he was also deputy people's commissar for education of the republic and editor of the newspaper Jengbekschi qasaq . At the Third Congress of Soviets in September 1922, at the age of just 28, he was appointed Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, which corresponds to the position of the Kazakh head of government . In the same year he was also elected a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. He advocated that the Kazakh language can also be used in official government documents. He wrote a total of nine articles in the Jengbekschi qasaq, in which he addressed this topic.

In the following years Seifullin devoted himself mainly to teaching activities at various educational institutions; he also published dozens of works. On April 7, 1925, he became chairman of the Academic Center of the People's Commissariat of the Kazakh SSR. He published several poetry collections, short stories and novels. In March 1931, he completed his first work on Kazakh folklore .

On September 24, 1937, he was arrested by the NKVD . He was sentenced to death in February 1938 and shot on April 25, 1938 in Alma-Ata . He was not rehabilitated until 1958.

Honors

literature

  • Didar Kassymova, Zhanat Kundakbayeva, Ustina Markus: Historical Dictionary of Kazakhstan (=  Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East ). Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2012, ISBN 0-8108-6782-6 (English).

Web links

Commons : Säken Seifullin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saken Seiffulin , accessed on March 5, 2019 (English).
  2. ↑ 20 интересных фактов о Сакене Сейфуллине e-history.kz, accessed on August 10, 2019 (Russian).
  3. ↑ a b Сакен Сейфуллин. Тернистый путь e-history.kz, accessed August 10, 2019 (Russian).
  4. ↑ Сейфуллин Сакен (1894–1938 гг.). tarih-begalinka.kz, accessed August 10, 2019 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Seifullin, Saken
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seifullin, Saken Seifollauly (full name); Сейфуллин, Сәкен Сейфоллаұлы (kkS); Сейфуллин, Сакен Сейфоллаевич (ruS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kazakh poet, writer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Akmola District, Akmola Oblast, Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1938
Place of death Alma-Ata , Kazakh SSR