Seyfullin Saken

Seyfullin Saken (12.6.1894, nomadic village Nildinskoy parish - 1939), writer and statesman. Educated teachers' seminary in Omsk (1916). Summer of 1918 captured parts Ataman Annenkov, ran. It is considered one of the founders of modern Kazakh literature. He became known even before the revolution, releasing in 1910 a collection of lyrical poems "The past few days". In 1918 joined the RKP (b), participant in the struggle for Soviet power in Kazakhstan, a member of the Revolutionary Committee of Akmola. In 1918 he was captured white, but he ran. From 1919 the party work in Akmolinsk since 1920 - in Orenburg. In 1922-25 before. SNK Kazakh SSR. In the 1924-37 editor in chief of "Labor Kazakh", from 1937 - editor in chief of the Labor Front. Published a collection of poems, indomitable horse "(1922)," Waves of Life "(1928), the poem" Sovetstan "(1926) and" Albatross "(1933). where VI praised. Lenin, etc.. In 1927 he wrote a historical novel memoir "The hard way, hard transition". In 1938, arrested. Subjected to repression. He was posthumously rehabilitated.