Shirinsho Shotemur

شيرينشو شوتمور

1 December 1899 CE · 27 Rajab 1317 AH† – 27 October 1937 CE · 23 Sha'ban 1356 AH† †

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

Tajik Soviet politician (1899–1937) and one of the founders of Soviet Tajikistan: a Communist Party official from 1921, he was a main initiator of the Tajik ASSR in 1924 and of the Tajik SSR's separation from the Uzbek SSR in 1929, and chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Tajik SSR from 1933; executed in Moscow in the Great Purge, rehabilitated in 1956 and posthumously named a Hero of Tajikistan in 2006.