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Kyrgyzstan

Author · Kyrgyzstan

Kusein Esenkojoev

Died in 1944

Kusein Esenkojoev was born on 20 May 1920 in the village of Ichke-Bulung, in what is now the Jeti-Ögüz district, the son of a mullah. Orphaned very early, he was brought up by an older member of his family. He finished secondary school at seventeen and entered the state pedagogical institute the same year, and by 1939 he had joined the Union of Soviet Writers. He translated into Kyrgyz poems by Pushkin, Lermontov and Mayakovsky. Sent in his final year of study to the officers' school in Alma-Ata, he left for the front and died on 15 March 1944 before Moscow, aged twenty-three.

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