Zeki Velidi Togan

أحمد زكي وليدي توغان

10 December 1890 CE · 27 Rabi' II 1308 AH† – 26 July 1970 CE · 23 Jumada I 1390 AH† †

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

Istanbul

Bashkir historian and leader of the Bashkir liberation movement (1890–1970): he declared Bashkir autonomy in 1917, chaired the Bashrevkom in 1919–1920, then became a leader of the Basmachi movement in Turkistan before emigrating, and spent the rest of his life as a professor of Turkish history at Istanbul, where he died and was buried in 1970.