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Alikhan Bukeikhanov (1866-1937)

Alikhan Nurmukhamedovich Bukeikhanov — Kazakh statesman, political and public figure, teacher, journalist and ethnographer. He was born on March 5, 1866 in Tokraunsky volost, Karkaralinsky district, Semipalatinsk region, Russian Empire. At the age of 24, he changed his last name from Nurmukhamedov to Bukeikhanov. He graduated from Omsk Technical College, then from the Economics Department of the St. Petersburg Forestry Institute. I was engaged in statistics. He was the founder and one of the leaders of the Alash party. Chairman of the Government of the Alash Autonomous Region (Kazakh national territorial entity) from 1917 to 1920. Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Empire of the 1st convocation, signed the Vyborg Proclamation. Commissioner of the Provisional Government (with gubernatorial powers) for Kazakhstan in 1917. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was arrested three times by the NKVD. On September 27, 1937, he was convicted of belonging to a “terrorist organization“ and shot on the same day. On May 16, 1989, the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the USSR declared Bukeikhan‘s conviction unfounded.

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