Alikhan Bokeikhanov
| Alikhan Bokeikhan | |
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Alikhan Bukeikhanov in 1906.
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| Prime Minister of Alash Autonomy | |
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In office December 13, 1917 – March 5, 1920 |
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| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Office disestablished |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 5, 1866 Tokyrauyn Volost, Karkaralinsky Uyezd, Semipalatinsk Oblast, Russian Empire |
| Died | September 27, 1937 (aged 71) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Kazakh |
| Political party |
Constitutional Democratic Party Alash Party |
| Spouse(s) | Yelena Sevostyanova |
| Alma mater | Omsk Technical School Saint Petersburg Forestry Institute |
| Occupation | Politician, writer, environmental scientist |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
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Alikhan Nurmukhameduly Bukeikhanov (Kazakh: Әлихан Нұрмұхамедұлы Бөкейханов; Russian: Алихан Нурмухамедович Букейханов; March 5, 1866 — September 27, 1937) was a Kazakh statesman, politician, publicist, teacher, writer and environmental scientist who served as the Prime Minister of the Alash Autonomy from 1917 to 1920. He was leader and founder of the Alash Orda national liberation movement. He sided with the westernizers in the Kazakh political scene who were promoting the idea of the Western culture into the Kazakh steppe.
Alikhan Bukeikhanov was born March 5, 1866, in Tokyrauyn Volost, Karkaralinsky Uyezd, Semipalatinsk Oblast, Russian Empire. He was a great grandson of Barak Sultan, former khan of Bukey Horde. He graduated from the Russian-Kazakh School and Omsk Technical School in 1890. He later studied at the Saint Petersburg Forestry Institute, where he graduated from the Faculty of Economics in 1894. During his youth, he is believed to have been influenced by socialists.
Upon graduating, Bukeikhanov returned to Omsk and spent the next fourteen years there working. From 1895 to 1897, he worked as teacher of mathematic in Omsk school for Kazakh children. He was a participant in the 1896 Shcherbina Expedition, which aimed to research and assess virtually every aspect of Russian-controlled Central Asia from the environment and resources to the culture and traditions of its inhabitants. This was the first of a few similar missions which Bukeikhanov accepted. Among his recorded contributions is "Ovtsevodstvo v stepnom krae" ("Sheep-Breeding in the Steppe Land"), which analyzed animal husbandry in Central Asia. Bukeikhanov was the first biographer of Abay Kunanbayev, publishing an obituary in Semipalatinsky listok in 1905. In 1909, he published collection of Kunanbayev's works.
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