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Alikhan Bukeikhanov
Kazakh politician and publisher who served as the Chairman (Prime Minister) of Provisional National Government of Alash Orda and one of the leaders of the Alash party from late 1917 to 1920.
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Gabit Musirepov
a Soviet Kazakh writer, playwright and author of libretto to Kazakh opera Kyz-Zhibek, a member of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences.
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Mirjaqip Dulatuli
a Kazakh poet, writer and one of leaders of Kazakh nationalist Alash Orda government. He also is known to have used the pen names Madiyar and Arghyn.
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Ahmet Baitursynuly
a Kazakh intellectual who worked in the fields of politics, poetry, linguistics and education, reformed the Kazakh alphabet
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Kasym Khan
a son of Janibek Khan. He ruled as the fourth Khan of the Kazakh Khanate from about 1511 to 1521. He is viewed as the greatest leader to unite the Kazakh tribes.
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Ybyrai Altynsarin
a major figure in pre-Soviet Kazakh history. He was the most prominent Kazakh educator of the late 19th century, during the period of Russian colonization of and cultural influence in Kazakhstan.
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Abai Qunanbaiuly
a Kazakh poet, composer and Hanafi Maturidi theologian philosopher. He was also a cultural reformer toward European and Russian cultures on the basis of enlightened Islam.
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Yuri Gagarin
a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first human to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961.
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Ybyrai Altynsarin
a major figure in pre-Soviet Kazakh history. He was the most prominent Kazakh educator of the late 19th century, during the period of Russian colonization of and cultural influence in Kazakhstan.
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Olzhas Suleimenov
a Kazakh former Soviet dissident, Russian-language poet, Turkologist, politician, and anti-nuclear activist, leader of "Nevada-Semey" movement.
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