Zunun Taipovich Taipov (18 August 1917 – 12 October 1984) was a Chinese Tatar military officer in the armies of the Second East Turkestan Republic and the People's Republic of China.

[1] He defected to the Soviet Union in the 1962 Yi–Ta incident, amid the Sino-Soviet split.

He died in Alma-Ata (Almaty), Kazakhstan, in 1984.

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