10 Facts About Kasym Tynystanov

Kasym Tynystanov was born in 1901 in the village of Chyrpykty, Semirechye Oblast.

Kasym Tynystanov went to school between 1912 and 1916 in Karakol and Sazonovka village.

Kasym Tynystanov was arrested, as part of Stalin's Great Purge, on 1 August 1938 and was executed on 6 November the same year.

Kasym Tynystanov worked on his alphabet between 1921 and 1926; he finalized the alphabet for the approval of the Government in 1924 and started to work on Kyrgyz orthography, which was approved in 1927 by the so-called Academic Center.

On 20 December 1924 at the opening ceremony of the Academic Center at the Department of the People's Education, Kasym Tynystanov was appointed a Deputy of Ishenally Arabaev, the Chair of the center.

In spring of 1925 Kasym Tynystanov published several articles and convinced the government and the Communist Party in the need of a new script.

The National Scientific Commission created a Society of Supporters of the New Alphabet, chaired by Kasym Tynystanov, which started to promote understanding and use of the new script.

In 1928 Kasym Tynystanov developed an alphabet for the Uyghur language and drafted a Dungan alphabet for the Dungans, living in the Soviet Union.

In 1926 he supported the publishing of a part of Semetei epic story, Tynybek's version, which Kasym Tynystanov personally valued very much.

In May 1931 after a long health treatment Kasym Tynystanov returned to his work and headed the Department of Language, Literature and Art at the National Council for Kyrgyz Language and Literature of the Kyrgyz Research Institute of Culture.