Saken seifullin biography

Saken Seyfullin (15 October 1894 – 28 February 1939) was a pioneer of modern Kazakh literature, poet and writer, and national activist.

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Founder and first head of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan, he was the author of controversial literature calling for greater independence of Kazakhs from Soviet and Russian power. He met repression and was executed in 1939.

The Soviet government posthumously rehabilitated him during de-Stalinization.

Seyfullin was born October, 15 in 1894 in a nomadic settlement (today is Karagandy Province).

From 1905 to 1908, Seyfullin studied in a Russian-Kazakh school in the Spassk brass works.

He went on to study in Akmola in the primary parish school and the Akmola three-class city school. In addition, he taught Russian at a Muslim madrasah.

Saken seifullin biography

On August 21 in 1913, Seifullin entered the Omsk teaching seminary. His first article was published in the November edition of Ay Qap magazine. It was at this time that he began to be spied u