About Şaja Batyrow
Lived 1908 – 1965 (aged 57). Şaja Batyrow was a Russian politician.
Şaja Batyrowiç Batyrow (1908–1965) was a Soviet politician who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan. He also was head of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan from 1959 to 1965.
Biography He was born into the family of a wealthy merchant (according to other sources, a poor peasant) in the village of Desht in the Transcaspian region of the Russian Empire. He was a Turkmen, a descendant of the Teke tribe. His term as first secretary lasted from March 1947 until 1950, when Balyş Öwezow succeeded him.
From 1954-1959, he was Director of the Turkmen Pedagogical Institute. In 1959 he was elected Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Turkmen SSR and President of the Academy of Sciences of the Turkmen SSR. In 1962, for the monograph "Formation and Development of Socialist Nations in the USSR" he received the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences.
He died on October 14, 1965. He was buried at the Vatutinsky Cemetery in Ashgabat. He received the Order of Lenin.
Legacy A street is named after him in the capital of Turkmenistan, Ashgabat.
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Soviet politician (1908–1965)
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Şaja Batyrow was born on 3 October 1908 in Transcaspian Oblast.
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Şaja Batyrow died on 14 October 1965 in Ashgabat.
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Şaja Batyrow was a politician.
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Şaja Batyrow was Russian.
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