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Kyrgyzstan

Author · Kyrgyzstan

Aaly Tokombaev

Died in 1988

Aaly Tokombaev was born in 1904 in the village of Kayyngdy, in the Kemin district, and died in 1988. Admitted in 1922 to the Soviet party school in Tashkent, he attended the Communist University of Central Asia from 1923 to 1927, then headed the public education department of a canton and ran several newspapers and journals. From 1934 to 1949 he chaired the writers' union of his country and directed the institute of language, literature and history. Arrested during the purges, he saw all his works predating his detention destroyed.

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