Sultanbek Khodzhanov

سلطان بيك خوجانوف

10 September 1894 CE · 9 Rabi' I 1312 AH† – 10 February 1938 CE · 10 Dhu al-Hijja 1356 AH† †

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

Kazakh Soviet statesman, scholar and publicist (1894–1938): people's commissar of internal affairs (1920) and then of education (1921) of the Turkestan ASSR, a participant in creating the Turkestan Autonomy in 1917, and a leading worker for the national delimitation of Central Asia and for restoring the name 'Kazakh'. Arrested in July 1937, he was shot in Moscow's Butyrka Prison on 10 February 1938 and rehabilitated in 1957.