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Biographical notes of some of the persons mentioned
Baitursunov, A. (1873-1937) - Kazakh poet, journalist, linguist, one of the leaders of the bourgeois-
nationalistic party »Alash«. 1919 member of the Kirghiz (Kazakh) Revolutionary Military Committee. 1920 vice-
chairman of the Kirghiz (Kazakh) Revolutionary Committee. 1925 lecturer of Kirghiz (Kazakh) University in
Alma-Ata. He was arrested in 1929, banished to Solovki, 8 years later he returned to Alma-Ata where he was
shot in 1937.
Bekh-Ivanov. G. G. State and party figure of the Republic of Turkestan, of Russian nationality. 1920 member
of the party court of Turkestan, member of the Presidium and the secretary of the CEC of Turkestan. 1921
functionary of the representation of Turkestan in Moscow. 1924 representative of the People’s Commissariat of
Foreign Trade of the USSR in Central Asia, then at work in the agriculture field in Kirghizia, Uzbekistan and
Tajikistan. 1929 representative on State grain purchase in Tajikistan (later removed from this post).
Eliava, Sh. Z. (1883-1937). State and party figure. In February 1919 chairman of the Special Temporary
Commission of the CPC of the RSFSR on Turkoman Affairs. October 1919 - July 1920 chairman of the Turkoman
Commission (Turkcommission) of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Sovnarkom of the
RSFSR, the plenipotentiary representative of the RSFSR in Turkey and Persia. In August 1920 member of the
Turkoman Bureau (Turkbiuro) of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) or the
CC of the RCP (B). 1923 chairman of the CPC of Georgia. 1927 chairman of the CPC of the Transcaucasian
Soviet Federal Socialist Republic. Candidate member of the CC of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (B)
- CPSU (B) from 1927. 1931 substitute of the People’s Commissar of Foreign Trade of the USSR. 1936 -
substitute of the People’s Commissar of Light Industry of the USSR. Subjected to repression. Rehabilitated in
1956.
Fyn (Fen) Yuisian (1882-1948). Chinese general. October 1924 head of the revolution in Peking, commander-
in-chief of the national armies and commander of the First National Army in Northern China. 1926, after a trip
to the USSR, he entered the »Gomindan« party. Further military and party posts. Died in an accident.
Khodzhaev, N. I. (1885-1942). Uzbek national figure. 1918-1919 member of the Central Committee (CC), the
Mussulman Bureau, the Territorial Committee of the Communist Party of Turkestan and the Central Executive
Committee (CEC) of Turkestan. September 1919 vice-chairman of the Turkoman CEC. 1920 in the staff of the
Central Control Commission (CCC) of the Communist Party of Turkestan. After the Civil War member of the
Turkestan CEC. In 1931 he graduated from the economic faculty of the Central Asian State University and
became a member of the Presidium of the State Planning Committee (Gosplan) of Uzbekistan. 1932 chairman
of the Committee on protection of monuments of the ancient time and art of Uzbekistan.
Kuibyshev, V. V. (1888-1935). State and party figure. 1919-1920 vice-chairman and chairman of the
Turkcommission and plenipotentiary representative of the RSFSR in the People’s Republic of Bokhara. 1922
secretary of the CC of the RCP (B). 1923 chairman of the CCC of the CPSU (B) and People’s Commissar of WPI
of the USSR, simultaneously vice-chairman of the CPC and the PLDC of the USSR in January - November 1926.