Ahmet Baıtursynuly óleni: Anaǵa hat. Akhmet Baitursynov song: A letter to mother.

Akhmet Baitursynov (September 5, 1873 - December 8, 1937) was a Kazakh intellectual who worked in the fields of politic, poetry, linguistics and education. When the Russian Revolution of 1917 occurred, Baytursinuli returned to the steppes and began to work with the Alash Orda political party. With them, he fought for the Kazakhs to have an independent state. He began to work with the Bolsheviks in 1920 when they established their dominance over the region. He served as a Member of the Committee of Deputies of the Constituent Assembly and as Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of the Kazakh Krai, as well as Commissioner of Enlightenment. In these capacities, he helped to reform education and to establish the first university in KazakSSR.
Another of Baitursynov's significant accomplishments was his adaptation of Arabic script for the Kazakh alphabet.
In 1937, during the Great Purge, Baitursynov was arrested NKVD Soviet Regime, for hiding "bourgeois nationalist sentiments" and summarily executed. This had resulted in an outcry, which was quickly and bloodily silenced.To this day, he is held in great regard in Kazakhstan, but is viewed as somewhat tragic figure, signifying the extent of the numbers of authors, poets and thinkers who have perished due to the Soviet repressions. A museum in honour of Baitursynov was established in one of his former residences in Alma-Ata, and a number of streets were renamed in his memory across Kazakhstan. A statue of the thinker is also to be found in the town of Kostenay.
Baitursynov's work is part of the curriculum for high school education system of Kazakhstan. #alash_ulandary #алашорда