Saken Seifullin

ساكن سيفولين

15 October 1894 CE · 14 Rabi' II 1312 AH† – 25 April 1938 CE · 25 Safar 1357 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Kazakh poet, writer and statesman (1894–1938), founder of modern Kazakh literature and first head of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan, who chaired the Council of People's Commissars of the Kirghiz ASSR. He joined the Communist Party in 1918, was executed by the NKVD at Almaty in 1938 in the Great Purge, and was rehabilitated in 1957.