AKAY KUSYUMOV

AKAY KUSYUMOV, one of the leaders of the 1735–40 Bashkir Uprisings (see Bashkir uprising of the 17—18th centuries). Son of Kusyum Tyulekeyev. He lived in Tamyan, then in the Yeneyskaya Volost of Kazan Doroga. In June 1735, at the Yiyin, held near Ufa, he headed the delegation of Bashkirs of Kazan Doroga and later he was elected their leader. Between July—September 1735, A.K.’s detachment operated on the territory of Nogay and Kazan dorogas, near Ufa, at the beginning of October A.K. participated in the attack on the Orenburg Expedition main forces near Tabynsk Fortress. In October, at the suggestion of the Lieutenant General A.I.Rumyantsev A.K. arrived in Menzelinsk for negotiations, where he was arrested. In 1738, he was expelled to St. Petersburg.