Bai Yanhu

Bai Yanhu (Chinese: 白彥虎, Dungan: Биянхў; 1830–1882), also known as Mohammed Ayub (مُحَمَّد بَىْيًاحُو),[1] was a Hui military commander and rebel from Shaanxi, China.

After being pushed out of Shaanxi by Qing forces under the command of Zuo Zongtang, he fled to the Jahriyya stronghold of Jinjipu (near modern-day Wuzhong, Ningxia).

[3] After entering Xinjiang, troops led by Bai managed to take control of Hami, but they abandoned the city shortly thereafter, fleeing from the approaching Qing army.

[7] The Dungan poet Iasyr Shivaza claimed in 1985 that Bai died in Masanchi, and a wooden dummy was buried in his grave.

The Dungans then took his body to Bishkek where they buried him in the yard of his son's house at Dzerzhinsky Avenue (today called Erkindik Boulevard/Бульвар Эркиндик).