ABDRAKHMAN BAIDILDIN

rakhman Baidildin (1891-1931) was Kazakh literary man and public figure. He was born in Akkain municipality of North-Kazakhstan Region.

He finished a school in his village and Russian-Kirgiz academy. He also attended a teaching seminary in Orenburg. After the February Revolution he participated in the organization of the Kazakh Committee for Akmola region. In 1919-1920 he worked as an instructor-organizer, responsible secretary of the cultural-and-educational department of the organizational bureau of Kazakh youth under the Central Committee of the Communist Union of Youth in Turkestan.

In 1920-1921 he was the chairman of the Committee of Muslim Seminary of Russian Communist Party, member of different district committees of the party and district executive committees. In 1921-1922 he was the member of collegium of people's farming commissariat of the Kazakh ASSR, editor of Yenbekshi Kazakh newspaper (now Yegemen Kazakhstan).

In 1922-1923 he was the member of the Presidium of the Kazakh Regional Committee for Agitation and Propaganda, editor of Kyzyl Tu Newspaper. In 1923-1925 he worked as the secretary of Kirgiz Section of the Central Publishing House of Moscow. In 1925-1925 he was the head of the press department of Kazakh Committee of the All-Soviet Communist Party. In 1926-1926 he was the chairman of the Central Administration of the Union of Educational Workers of the Kazakh ASSR.

In 1929 he was the teacher in Kazakh State University (Now Al-Farabi Kazakh National Unoversity).

In 1929 he was repressed and in 1931 he was sentenced to execution. In 1990 he was rehabilitated according to the conclusion of the public prosecution of the Kazakh SSR.

He was the author of several works as "Our Future Goals" (1926), "Guideline for Educational Workers", "The New ABC" (1928) and others.

Source: Kazakhstan, National Encyclopedia, Volume 1.