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Platon Alekseyevich Oyunsky
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Platon Alekseyevich Oyunsky – a Yakut Soviet writer, philologist and public figure, the founder of Yakut Soviet literature. Platon Alekseyevich Oyunsky was born in the Boturus (Tattinsky) ulus into a peasant family. He graduated from the Yakut Teachers' Seminary in 1917 and continued his studies at the Tomsk Teachers' Institute.
From March 1918 he was a member of the CPSU and held high government posts in Yakutia, including the positions of chairman of the Gubrevkom, of the Sovnarkom and of the Central Executive Committee. Oyunsky actively participated in the development of Yakut culture. He proposed the idea of creating a national military school and headed the people's commissariats for education and health. In 1935, at his initiative, a Research Institute of Language and Culture was established, and he became its first director. In the same year he defended his candidate dissertation in linguistics. Oyunsky served on the board of the Union of Soviet Writers and was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
Oyunsky was arrested by the NKVD in Irkutsk in 1938 on charges of counter-revolutionary activity. He died in a Yakut prison on October 31, 1939, and was posthumously rehabilitated in 1955.
Date of birth
30 December 1893
Date of death
31 October 1939
Occupation
Writer