Sanshar Asfendiyarov

Sanshar Asfendiyarov

Sanschar Schaparuly Asfendijarow ( Kazakh Санжар Жапарұлы Асфендияров , Russian Санджар Джафарович Асфендиаров Sanjar Dschafarowitsch Asfendiarow * 20th October 1889 in Tashkent Oblast Syrdarya, Russian Empire ; † 25. February 1938 in Alma-Ata , Kazakh SSR ) was a Kazakh military doctor and politician .

Life

Asfendiyarov was born in Tashkent in 1889 . Between 1899 and 1907 he attended a school in Tashkent. After attending school, he received a scholarship from the Imperial Russian Navy, which enabled him to finance studies at the Military Medical Academy in Saint Petersburg . In 1912 he completed this.

Then Asfendijarow worked as a military doctor in the Imperial Russian Army . Here he was first stationed as a doctor in Termiz from March to November 1913 . Afterwards he was a member of other rifle brigades in the Turkestan military district as a doctor. During the First World War he was captured by German units near Łódź in December 1914 . Only in December 1915 did he return to Saint Petersburg through a prisoner exchange between the German Reich and Russia. After the Bolsheviks seized power in the October Revolution , Asfendiyarov became involved in the political organs in Turkestan . He was a member of the workers 'and soldiers' councils in Bukhara , Tashkent and a member of the regional council of Turkestan. In May 1919 he joined the Communist Party and in the following years he held high-ranking positions in the government of the ASSR Turkestan . He was People's Commissar for Health from 1919 to 1920, People's Commissar for Agriculture between 1921 and 1992 and then again People's Commissar for Health from 1923 to 1924. In 1920 he was also briefly deputy chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the ASSR Turkestan and between 1921 and 1922 member of the board of the People's Commissariat for Nationality Issues and in 1923 deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the ASSR Turkestan.

Between 1925 and 1928 Asfendiyarov was a member of the Central Executive Committee (ZEK) of the Soviet Union and as such he also held other positions. From 1925 to 1927 he was secretary of the Council of Nationalities of the ZEK and in 1926 he was deputy secretary of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee . From 1927 to 1928 he was director of the Institute for Oriental Studies in Moscow and also professor at the Lomonosov University in Moscow . In 1928 he moved to Alma-Ata , where he was actively involved in the organization and development of the Kazakh State University , of which he was also rector from 1928 to 1931. Subsequently, he became rector of the Kazakh State Medical Institute . At the same time he was People's Commissar for Health of the Kazakh ASSR . He then became the Deputy People's Commissar for Education in the Kazakh ASSR, responsible for the organization of universities and libraries.

From 1934 Asfendijarow held no more political functions, but devoted himself to research. He worked for several years at the Kazakh branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , where he first headed the historical and archaeological commission and later became deputy chairman of the branch. He was also head of the Department of History of the Cultural Research Institute of the Kazakh Central Executive Committee and Professor at the Faculty of History of the Kazakh Pedagogical Institute.

In 1937 Asfendiyarov was arrested. He was sentenced to death on February 25, 1938 and executed on the same day.

On May 26, 1958, he was posthumously rehabilitated.

Honors

• the Kazakh National Medical University is named after him

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Санжар Джафарович Асфендияров. kaznmu.kz, accessed August 30, 2019 (Russian).
2. ↑ Асфендиаров Санджар Джафарович. elibrary.orenlib.ru, accessed September 1, 2019 (Russian).
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Асфендияров Санжар Жафарулы (1889–1938 гг.). tarih.spring.kz, accessed September 1, 2019 (Russian).