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'''Isatay Taymanuly''' ({{lang-kk|'''Исатай Тайманұлы'''}} {{lang-ru|Исатай Тайманов}}, 1791 —  July 12, 1838) was a [[Kazakhs|Kazakh]] hero ("batyr") and leader (with his friend [[Makhambet Utemisuly]]) of a rebellion against [[Zhangir-Kerey Khan]] of [[Bokey Horde]] and the [[Russia]]n rulers of [[Kazakhstan]] in the 19th century.

The rebellion began in late 1836 and the beginning of 1837.

Isatay was killed in fighting near the [[Aqbulaq River|Aqbulaq]] River on July 12, 1838.  According to Baymirza Hayit's book "Turkistan: Between Russia and China" after his army was defeated, İsatay batur got into a sword fight against seven Russian Cossack soldiers; eventually he got overwhelmed and was killed by decapitation.

== External links ==
* [http://www.bookrags.com/biography/taimanov-isatai-ema-05/ Biography of Taimanov]
* [http://www.oval.ru/enc/70257.html Great Soviet Encyclopedia about Isatay]
* [http://www.tarlan.freenet.kz/html/isatai.htm Tarlan about Isatay]

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[[Category:History of Kazakhstan]]
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[[Category:1838 deaths]]
[[Category:Military personnel killed in action]]
[[Category:Kazakhstani military personnel]]
[[Category:Ethnic Kazakh people]]


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