Turar Rysqulov

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Turar Rysqulov

Turar Rysqulow ( Kazakh Тұрар Рысқұлов , Russian Турар Рыскулов Turar Ryskulow ; born December 14 . Jul / 26. December  1894 greg. In the district Talgar, Oblast Semiretschje, Russian Empire ; † 10. February 1938 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician .

Life

Turar Rysqulow was born in 1894 in the Semirechye Oblast in what is now the Almaty region in Kazakhstan . He attended a Russian-Kazakh school from 1907 to 1910 and in 1914 he graduated from the agricultural school in Pischpek and from 1916 to 1917 he studied at the Pedagogical Institute in Tashkent . In 1916 he was arrested during the uprising in Central Asia against the tsarist government in Aulije-Ata ; however, in the absence of charge, he was released.

After the February Revolution , he founded the Revolutionary Union of Kyrgyz Youth in Merki in 1917 and was in close contact with the councils in Aulije-Ata. In September of that year he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party . In 1918 Rysqulov became deputy chairman of the Aulije-Ata District Executive Committee, later he was its chairman. In September 1918 he became People's Commissar for Health of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Turkestan ; he was also the chairman of the Muslim bureau established by the decision of the second conference of the Turkestan Communist Party. On January 21, 1920 Rysqulow was elected chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Turkestan ASSR. As such, he was particularly committed to protecting the rights of the local population by returning land used by immigrants to the local population. For this he was sharply criticized by the government in Moscow. In September 1920 he took part as a delegate at the Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku .

He then moved from Turkestan to the government of Soviet Russia . In 1921 he was the authorized representative of the People's Commissariat for Nationality Issues for the Azerbaijani SSR . In 1921 and 1922 he was then transferred to the People's Commissariat for Nationality Issues, where he was initially only an employee, later a member of the Presidium and finally second deputy People's Commissar for Nationality Issues. Between 1922 and 1924 Rysqulov was chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Turkestan ASSR. In the summer of 1924 he was sent by the government in Moscow to the Mongolian People's Republic as a representative of the Communist International . Here he was involved in renaming the capital Ulaanbaatar (German: "Red Hero"). On his return in March 1926, he worked as the head of the press department of the Kazakh Communist Party Regional Committee and as editor-in-chief of the Jengbekschi qasaq newspaper . A short time later he went back to Moscow where he was on May 31, 1926 the deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR ; at the same time he became chairman of the government commission for the construction of the Turkestan-Siberian railway .

On May 31, 1937 Rysqulow was on charges of pan-Turkism arrested as an "enemy of the people". He was shot dead in a Moscow prison on February 10, 1938 .

He was rehabilitated on December 8, 1956 .

Honors

Web links

Commons : Turar Rysqulow  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  3. a b Выдающийся дипломат казахского народа e-history.kz, accessed on August 10, 2019 (Russian).