Mağjan Jumabayev
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Mağjan Jumabayev was a prominent Qazaq
Kazakh language
Kazakh is a Turkic language which belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages, closely related to Nogai and Karakalpak....

 writer and pedagogue, one of the modern Qazaq literature's founders.

Biography

From 1905 till 1910 Mağjan Jumabayev was studying in Petropavl
Petropavl
Petropavl is a city on the Ishim River in North Kazakhstan Province of Kazakhstan close to the border with Russia, about 261 km west of Omsk along the Trans-Siberian Railway. It is capital of the North Kazakhstan Province...

 madrasah, learning there Arabic
Arabic language
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, Persian
Persian language
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 and Turkish
Turkish language
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 languages. 1910 and 1911 were the years when he was studying in Ufa
Ufa
-Demographics:Nationally, dominated by Russian , Bashkirs and Tatars . In addition, numerous are Ukrainians , Chuvash , Mari , Belarusians , Mordovians , Armenian , Germans , Jews , Azeris .-Government and administration:Local...

 madrasah, where one of the teachers was Galimjan İbragimov, the Volga Tatar classical writer. In 1912 his Qazaq
Kazakh language
Kazakh is a Turkic language which belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages, closely related to Nogai and Karakalpak....

 poetry collected with the “Şolpan” name and written with Arabic alphabet
Arabic alphabet
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 was published and right away became popular among the Qazaq intellectuals.

During the summer and winter of 1917 he has been taking part in the creation of Qazaq “Alaş” party and Alaş Orda Qazaq national government at both All-Qazaq congresses as delegate of Akmolinsk Oblast.

Living later in Moscow he translated the works of Lermontov, Koltsov, Balmont, Merezhkovsky, Ivanov
Ivanov
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, Mamin-Sibiriak, Maksim Gorky, Alexander Blok
Alexander Blok
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok was a Russian lyrical poet.-Life and career:Blok was born in Saint Petersburg, into a sophisticated and intellectual family. Some of his relatives were literary men, his father being a law professor in Warsaw, and his maternal grandfather the rector of Saint Petersburg...

, Goethe, Heine
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 and other poets into Qazaq language. After the graduation in higher education there in 1927 he returned to Qazaqstan and had been working as teacher.

Arrest

Because of the unfair accusation of being Pan-Turkist member of Alaş Orda and Japanese spy, Jumabayev was arrested in Petropavl
Petropavl
Petropavl is a city on the Ishim River in North Kazakhstan Province of Kazakhstan close to the border with Russia, about 261 km west of Omsk along the Trans-Siberian Railway. It is capital of the North Kazakhstan Province...

 and convicted for the 10-year deprivation of liberty. Until the court he had been staying in Butyrka prison
Butyrka prison
Butyrka prison was the central transit prison in pre-Revolutionary Russia, located in Moscow.The first references to Butyrka prison may be traced back to the 17th century. The present prison building was erected in 1879 near the Butyrsk gate on the site of a prison-fortress which had been built...

, and later was sent to Karelia
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 and Arkhangelsk Oblast
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. In 1934 Maksim Gorky and Peshkova received the letter from him and due to their intercession Mağjan Jumabayev was emancipated before the appointed time. However, just half a year later he was arrested in Almaty
Almaty
Almaty , also known by its former names Verny and Alma-Ata , is the former capital of Kazakhstan and the nation's largest city, with a population of 1,348,500...

 again and executed by shooting of NKVD
NKVD
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 on 19 March 1938.
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