Ismail Yusupov

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Ismail Abdurasululy Yusupovich Yusupov, Russian: Исмаил Юсупович Юсупов, (5 November 1913 - 16 May 2005) was a Kazakh Soviet Communist political figure. From 1962 to 1964 he was secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR.[1]

Yuspov attended an agricultural college and graduated in 1934. In 1940 he enlisted in the army and then graduated from the Minsk Military Academy for political officers. From June 1941 to July 1942 he was on the Leningrad front attached to a skiing assault battalion as a political officer. In addition to other formal recognition he was awarded the Order of Lenin.

Yusupov helped establish to Uyghur region within the Almaty Oblast, as well as the Uyghur National Theater.[2]

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  1. ^ "Kazakhstan President condoled upon decease of Ismail Yusupov" Kazinform (17 May 2005);
  2. ^ "Kazakh Academy of Sciences Marks its 10th Anniversary" Kazakhstan Daily Digest (6 November 2001);
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