Ismail Yusupovich Yusupov, , (5 November 1913 - 16 May 2005) was a member of the Uyghur

Uyghur people

The Uyghur are a Turkic ethnic group living in Eastern and Central Asia. Today, Uyghurs live primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China...

 minority and a Soviet Communist political figure in the Kazakh SSR

Kazakh SSR

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. From 1962 to 1964 he was first secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR.

Yusupov attended an agricultural college and graduated in 1934. In 1940 he enlisted in the army and then graduated from the Minsk

Minsk

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 Military Academy for political officers. From June 1941 to July 1942 he was on the Leningrad

Leningrad

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 front attached to a skiing assault battalion as a political officer. In addition to other formal recognition he was awarded the Order of Lenin

Order of Lenin

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 for his service in World War II

World War II

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.

Yusupov helped establish Uyghur

Uyghur people

The Uyghur are a Turkic ethnic group living in Eastern and Central Asia. Today, Uyghurs live primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China...

 region within the Almaty Oblast

Almaty Province

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, as well as the Uyghur National Theater.