Burhan Mansurov
politician (1889-1942)
Burhan Mansurov (Tatar: Борһан Хөснетдин улы Мансуров, Borhan Xösnetdin ulı Mansurov, Russian: Бурхан Хуснутдинович Мансуров, Burkhan Khusnutdinovich Mansurov; 24 June 1889 – 15 August 1942) was a Tatar revolutionary and Soviet politician.
Biography
Early revolutionary career
Mansurov was born in to the family of a rural mullah and began his studies at his father's madrasah. At the age of 11 he was sent to Astrakhan, where he was forced to combine his studies with work. There he met representatives of the city's progressive intelligentsia, read revolutionary literature and participated in illegal meetings.
He began his revolutionary activities in 1905 with the distribution of leaflets and proclamations among Tatar workers. In 1906, he participated in the publication of the underground revolutionary newspaper "Uygatu" ("Awakening"). For his revolutionary activity, he was persecuted by the police and the clergy, and was forced to leave the madrasah. Having left for the steppe regions of the province, he conducted revolutionary propaganda among the Kazakhs, and then returned to his homeland, going to work as a teacher in a zemstvo school.
In 1907, he left for Kazan and entered the Tatar school "Mardzhaniya", from where he was soon expelled for agitation work among students. For some time he worked as a teacher in a madrasah in Novotatarskaya Sloboda.
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