Ishaq Beg Munonov

Ishaq Beg Munonov (1902 Shortly after the Russian Revolution of 1917, he moved to the Soviet Union to study and became a follower of Marxism. After the outbreak of the Soviet-backed Ili Rebellion in November 1944, he became a deputy commander-in-chief of the Ili National Army. The uprising gave rise to the Second East Turkestan Republic (ETR). Ishaq Beg was a member of the pro-Soviet progressive faction within the ETR. He reportedly held both Chinese and Soviet citizenship. In the summer of 1945, he directed the Battle of Jinghe-Wusu.

In June 1946, the revolutionaries of the ETR, which controlled three of Xinjiang's 10 districts, and the Nationalist Chinese government, which held the other seven districts, reached a peace agreement and formed a coalition government in Xinjiang. Soviet advisors departed the Ili National Army and Ishaq Beg became the commander-in-chief. He, along with Ehmetjan Qasim, Abdukerim Abbasov, Dalelkhan Sugirbayev and Luo Zhi, was killed in a plane crash near Lake Baikal on or about 26 August 1949.