18 Facts About Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev

Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev surveyed and engineered the railways of Russian Central Asia, while being active in the young political newspapers of the region.

Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev's father, Tynyshbay, was a minor official in the region.

Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev enrolled at the Imperial Institute of Railway Transport in St Petersburg, where the Tsarist government funded him with a stipend and living allowance.

Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev maintained his political connections and was elected, at the age of 28, to the second Duma in 1907, representing his home region.

Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev's life became a routine of railway work and contributing articles and news stories for 'Qazaq'.

Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev was connected at the time with other Kazakh political figures: Mustafa Chokai, Turar Ryskulov, and Alikhan Bukeikhanov.

Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev was a member of the short-lived Alash autonomy.

Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev was an early leader of the Turkestan Autonomy, the brutal oppression of which he escaped.

In 1921, thanks in part to his friendship with the highly placed Turar Ryskulov, Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev was appointed the head of the Department of Water Resources of the People's Commissariat of Turkestan, and moved to Tashkent.

Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev's brother perished in the cholera outbreak, so that Tynyshpaev, following his family's wishes and Kazakh tradition, married his newly widowed sister-in-law, Aziza Shalymbekova.

In 1924, Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev returned to Tashkent, where he took a teaching position at the Kazakh Pedagogical Institute, teaching physics and mathematics.

That year Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev married Aziz Shalymbekovoy, but their marriage did not last long, and she and her little daughter Enlik moved to Moscow.

Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev conducted a research on the construction of the road Almaty - Taldykorgan, he proposed a new version of the road Almaty - Horgos.

Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev returned to the railway in the late 1920s, connected with the massive TurkSib project, part of Stalin's first five-year plan.

Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev was denounced as a "bourgeois nationalist" in August 1931, but the investigation failed to find sufficient evidence.

At that time, Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev's son Daulet Sheikh Ali was born to his third wife, Amina.

Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev was arrested again in 1932 and sentenced to five years of exile in Voronezh, where he worked on the construction of the Moscow-Donetsk railway.

Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev wrote about the history of the Kazakhs from a genealogical perspective, lecturing for the Turkestan chapter of the Russian Geographical Society.