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Saken Seifullin (, Säken (Säduaqas) Seifullin; 15 October 1894 – 25 April 1938) was a pioneer of modern Kazakh literature, poet, writer, and a national activist. Сейфуллин Сакен. Great Soviet Encyclopedia He was the founder and the first head of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan. Additionally, he notably contributed in creating controversial literature instigating for independence of Kazakh people from Soviet and Russian oppression. Facing Soviet repression, Saken was executed in 1938. The Soviet government posthumously rehabilitated him in 1957 during the de-Stalinization period.
In 1914, Seifullin became one of the heads of the first cultural and educational society of Kazakh youth, Bırlık (Unity) in Omsk. His book of poetry Ötken Künder (Past Days) was published that year.
In 1916, he worked on a property census commission for the 12 of Akmolinsk Uezd. In that year he wrote the poem Volnenie (Unrest), dedicated to Central Asian unrest in 1916. From September 1 of 1916 he taught in Bugula school, which he co-founded.
On 9 March 1917 he moved to Akmola, where he wrote a welcoming poem for the February Revolution, Bız asyğys jinaldyq (We quickly gathered to march). In April of that year, Seifullin created a social-political and cultural society named Jas Qazaq (Young Kazakh). In July, he contributed to an issue of Tırşılık (Life) newspaper. In September, Seifullin began teaching three-month pedagogical courses in the new Russian-Kazakh school in Akmolinsk.
Right after the Russian Revolution, Seifullin wrote a poem, "А ну-ка, джигиты!", which is said to be the first work of Kazakh Soviet literature. On 27 December 1917, the Soviet regime was established in Akmolinsk. Seifullin was elected a member of the Aqmola Deputy Board and was appointed national commissar of education. In February, he was admitted to the Party. On 1 May 1918 his play, Baqyt Jolyna (On the Way of Happiness), was performed for the first time. СЕЙФУЛЛИН САКЕН. inform.kz. 5 October 2009
Civil War
When on June 4, 1918, the White movement conducted a revolution, Seifullin was arrested and sent to jail. He was put in a Death Carriage of Ataman Boris Annenkov, where he spent 47 days. He broke out of Kolchak Prison and reached his village by July. After two months he was forced to flee for Taraz.
Capture and execution
Seifullin was arrested by the agents of the NKVD from Moscow on 25 April 1938 and executed in Almaty, Kazakh SSR, deemed a "threat to the society" and a "nationalist". However, he was rehabilitated in 1957.
Categories: 1894 Births, 1938 Deaths, People From Akmolinsk Oblast, People From Karaganda Region, Central Executive Committee Of The Soviet Union Members, Delegates To The Congress Of Soviets Of The Soviet Union, Recipients Of The Order Of The Red Banner Of Labour, Great Purge Victims From Kazakhstan, Kazakh-language Writers, Kazakhstani Muslims, Kazakhstani Poets, Soviet Male Poets, Soviet Rehabilitations, Muslim Socialists
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