Saken Seifullin

Additionally, he notably contributed in creating controversial literature instigating for independence of Kazakh people from Soviet and Russian oppression.

In 1914, Seifullin became one of the heads of the first cultural and educational society of Kazakh youth, Bırlık (Unity) in Omsk.

In April of that year, Seifullin created a social-political and cultural society named Jas Qazaq (Young Kazakh).

In September, Seifullin began teaching three-month pedagogical courses in the new Russian-Kazakh school in Akmolinsk.

Seifullin was elected a member of the Aqmola Deputy Board and was appointed national commissar of education.

[2] Seifullin was arrested by the agents of the NKVD from Moscow on 25 April 1938 and executed in Almaty, Kazakh SSR, deemed a "threat to the society" and a "nationalist".