KUSHAYEV, Khafiz Kushayevich

KUSHAYEV, Khafiz Kushayevich [15.10.1888, Derevnya Selyayevo (according to other data, Derevnya Kuzyashevo) of Chelyabinsky Uyezd of Orenburg Gub. (Argayashsky Raion of Chelyabinsk Obl.) — 27.9. 1937, Moscow], Statesman. Participant of the Civil War. Studied at the Galiya Madrassa. In the Russian Army between 1900—17. Between 1919—21, Military Commissioner and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Argayashsky Canton of the ASBR. Between 1922—29 Chairman of the Bashkir Central Executive Committee, simultaneously, Member of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. In 1937, Deputy Dir. of the Vlast Sovetov (Power of Soviets) Publishing House (Moscow). In 1937, he was subjected to political purges and executed by shooting. Rehabilitated in 1957.