Turar Ryskulov

تورار ريسقولوف

26 December 1894 CE · 27 Jumada II 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 politician (1894–1938): he chaired the Central Executive Committee and then the Council of People's Commissars of the Turkestan ASSR, and served as deputy people's commissar for nationalities, as a Comintern representative in Mongolia and as deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR. His proposal of a separate Turkic Communist Party for Turkestan was overruled by Lenin. Arrested in the Great Purge, he was shot in Moscow on 10 February 1938 and rehabilitated in 1956.