Gabit Musrepov

Gabit Musrepov was born on 22 March 1902 in a village in what is now the Kostanay region, into a peasant family. He studied at the workers' faculty in Orenburg from 1923 to 1926, where he became friends with Saken Seyfullin and Sabit Mukanov, then at the agricultural institute in Omsk. A co-signatory in 1932 of a letter to Stalin against collectivization and the famine, he wrote the first Kazakh opera libretto, chaired the Writers' Union of Kazakhstan from 1956 to 1962 and again from 1964 to 1966, and died in Almaty on 31 December 1985.

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• NovelҰлпанGabit Musrepov · 1976not translated into EnglishLiterature