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'''Mağjan Jumabayev''' ({{lang-kk|Мағжан Бекенұлы Жұмабаев}}) was a prominent [[Kazakh language|Qazaq]] writer and pedagogue, one of the modern [[Qazaq literature]]'s founders.

==Biography==
From 1905 until 1910 Mağjan Jumabayev was studying in [[Petropavl]] madrasah, learning there [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[Persian language|Persian]] and [[Turkish language|Turkish]] languages. 1910 and 1911 were the years when he was studying in [[Ufa]] madrasah, where one of the teachers was [[Galimjan İbragimov]], the [[Volga Tatar]] classical writer. In 1912 his [[Kazakh language|Qazaq]] poetry collected with the "Şolpan" name and written with [[Arabic alphabet]] was published and right away became popular among the Qazaq intellectuals.

During the summer and winter of 1917 he has been taking part in the creation of Qazaq "Alaş" party and [[Alaş Orda]] Qazaq national government at both All-Qazaq congresses as delegate of [[Akmolinsk Oblast]].

Living later in Moscow he translated the works of [[Lermontov]], [[Koltsov]], [[Konstantin Balmont|Balmont]], [[Merezhkovsky]], [[Vsevolod Ivanov|Ivanov]], [[Mamin-Sibiriak]], [[Maksim Gorky]], [[Alexander Blok]], [[Goethe]], [[Heinrich Heine|Heine]] and other poets into [[Qazaq language]]. After the graduation in higher education there in 1927 he returned to [[Qazaqstan]] and had been working as teacher.

===Arrest===
Because of the unfair accusation of being [[Pan-Turkist]] member of Alaş Orda and Japanese spy, Jumabayev was arrested in [[Petropavl]] and convicted for the 10-year deprivation of liberty. Until the court he had been staying in [[Butyrka prison]], and later was sent to [[Karelia]] and [[Arkhangelsk Oblast]]. In 1934 [[Maksim Gorky]] and [[Peshkova]] received the letter from him and due to their intercession Mağjan Jumabayev was emancipated before the appointed time. However, just half a year later he was arrested in [[Almaty]] again and executed by shooting of [[NKVD]] on 19 March 1938.

==Films==
# 1990 — "Мағжан»" [["Mağjan" "Мағжан" - "Mağjan" (films)|Mağjan]]  (Documentary) "[[Kazakhtelefilm]]" film director [[Kalila Umarov]].


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[[Category:1893 births]]
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[[Category:Kazakh-language writers]]
[[Category:Great Purge victims from Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:People from Akmola Region]]
[[Category:Executed Kazakhstani people]]