Shoqan Walikhanov

Kazakh ethnographer (1835–1865)

Shokan Shyngysuly Walikhanov (November 1835 – April 10, 1865) was a Kazakh scholar, ethnographer, historian and participant in the Great Game. His reputation "as the father of modern Kazakh history and ethnography" is recorded in the Historical Dictionary of Kazakhstan. The Kazakh Academy of Sciences became the Ch.Ch.

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