ABDOLLA ASSYLBEKOV

ABDOLLA ABDRAKHMANOVICH ASSYLBEKOV (1896-1938) – a public figure, publicist.

He was born in Karaganda oblast. His mother died when he was a child. The grandmother brought Abdolla up. When Abdolla was at the age of 10, he and his father Abdrakhman left for Akmolinsk. He is one of the founders of ?Tirshilik? newspaper. A.Assylbekov participated in the national liberation movement of 1916. He is an initiator of the Akmola Deputies Council. During the Civil War A.Assylbekov and a number of revolutionaries were comitted to prison and then sent to the Far East. In 1921 A.Assylbekov returned to Kazakhstan. He was appointed Chief of Staff of the Red Forces on suppression of counter-revolutionary rebellion in Petropavlovsk and Akmolinsk districts. In 1923-1926 he studied in the K.Timiryazev Moscow Agricultural Academy. Abdolla Assylbekov was arrested for conscious help and communication with counterrevolutionary elements and public enemies N.Nurmakov and S.Seifullin. They were sentenced to death. Abdolla was rehabilitated in 1958. A.Assylbekov was a publicist. A lot of his articles and essays were published in newspapers ?Tirshilik?, ?Yenbekshi Kazakh?, ?The Soviet steppe?, magazine ?Kyzyl Kazakhstan?. In 1991 the Kundyzdy village of the Karkaraly district was named after Abdolla Assylbekov. Reference: Kazakhstan, National encyclopedia, vol.1