Chalchik Chunizhekov
Altai writer and poet

Chalchik Anchinovich Chunizhekov (10 November 1898 in Nizhny Kuyum, Altai – 1973 in Gorno-Altaisk) was an Altai writer and poet and a collector of oral folk art.
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