Serali Munaytbasovich Lapin (1869-1919) - Kazakh public and political figure, college registrar, translator at the military governor of the Samarkand region [1] , leader of the Shura Ulema party, orientalist, Turkologist.
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| Place of Birth | Perovsky Uyezd, Syrdarya Region, Turkestan Governor General | ||
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| Place of death | Samarkand | ||
| Citizenship | Russian empire | ||
| Father | Munaitpas Lapin | ||
| Mother | Boshay | ||
| Spouse | Zura | ||
| Children | Rachel, Rabiga, Alisher | ||
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Content
Childhood and Youth
Born in March 1869, the eldest son of Munaytbas Lapin. He was brought up in the Perovsky city school, graduated from the Turkestan teacher's seminary (1889), the law faculty of St. Petersburg University (1891). He was a tutor of local languages in the Turkestan teacher's seminary (1889-1892). Then S. Lapin passed the full test in the Pedagogical Council of the Tashkent male gymnasium for the title of home teacher in the subject of the Russian language.
Activities in Samarkand
On February 1, 1892, he was approved as a translator of the Samarkand Regional Court. Exactly one year later, S. Lapin was ordered by order in the Samarkand region to be an interpreter at the military governor of the Samarkand region. On January 27, 1894, the Russian emperor Alexander III gave the highest permission to S. Lapin to accept and wear the Bukhara Order of the Rising Silver Star of the 1st degree. May 14, 1896 Lapin was awarded the Silver Medal in connection with the coronation of Nicholas II. By order of the Samarkand region of August 28, 1896, the translator was sent to the disposal of the chief commander of the territory for escort, the commander of the troops of the Turkestan military district, Governor-General Baron A. B. Vrevsky in Kerki and in Bukhara. Emperor Nicholas II on February 3, 1897, deigned to command him to accept and wear the Order of the Golden Star of the 3rd degree. From June 21 to July 23, 1897, he was sent to the Iskander volost of Samarkand district by the military governor of the Samarkand region to study the Yagnob language.
Activities in Turkestan Region
From May 26 to June 8, 1898, S. Lapin was sent to the Ferghana and Syr Darya regions to accompany the Minister of Railways of Russia as an interpreter. By personal order of the chairman of the highest approved commission on measures to prevent and combat the plague of his highness, Prince Oldenburgsky, Lapin was sent to the Iskander volost of the Samarkand district with orders known to his highness from November 3 to 30, 1898. In August-September 1899, the general was sent to accompany Governor of Turkestan Territory S.M. Dukhovsky, as his personal translator when traveling in the Trans-Caspian and Ferghana regions and Bukhara possessions. Full member of the Samarkand Regional Statistical Committee (1894) S. Lapin is the author of a pocket Russian-Uzbek dictionary. In 1900, in the summer, he led an excursion of Turkestan youth in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Four years after his retirement, S. Lapin takes exams at the law faculty of St. Petersburg University, begins his career as a lawyer and plunges into political activity. In 1908-1910 engaged in advocacy in St. Petersburg, opens a private law office, works in the organizational bureau of the Muslim fraction of the 3rd State Duma.
Scientific activity
In 1910 he returned to the Turkestan Territory, where he conducts active research work on the study of historical and architectural monuments, oral folk art. He studies Arabic inscriptions in the complexes Gur-Emir, Registan, Shahi-Zinda, Kukeltash madrasah, translates them into Russian, and introduces them into scientific circulation. It reveals the date of construction, the names of the architects who erected these architectural structures. The results of scientific research by S. Lapin were used in the works of famous Russian orientalists, such as: V.L. Vyatkin, V.V. Bartold, N.I. Veselovsky, V.V. Rosen and others.
Participation in socio-political organizations
In 1914 he took part in the 4th All-Russian Muslim Congress (St. Petersburg, June 1914). After the February Revolution begins active political activity. In March 1917, he was chairman of the Council of People’s Representatives in Akmeshit. In July 1917, after the split of the Muslim organization Shura Islamia, it became the leader of the organization Shura (Jamiat) Ulema. At the regional congresses of the Kazakhs, he is elected as a candidate for deputy at the Constituent Assembly. Member of the Muslim congresses of the Turkestan Territory, the III Regional Congress of Workers, Soldiers and Peasants' Deputies of Turkestan (November 15-22, 1917). In November 1917, he took part in the work of the IV Extraordinary Regional Muslim Congress, which proclaimed Turkestan autonomy. By the decision of this congress, he was included in the National Assembly, however S. Lapin rejected his candidacy.
Departure to Germany
After the defeat of the Kokand autonomy, S. Lapin, with the help of the German consul general, accepted Turkish citizenship and went to Petersburg, and from there went through Pskov to Germany and arrived in Berlin on September 20, 1918. S. Lapin linked the further development of Turkestan with Germany, with its interests throughout the Middle East. December 17, 1918, Serali Lapin was hospitalized at the Edel Institute. In 1919, S. Lapin returned to Samarkand, and soon died under unknown circumstances. He was buried in the Shahi Zinda cemetery [1] .
Family
- Daughter - Rabiga (1893-1954) married to Sanjar Asfendiarov .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 E. Azretbergenova. SERALI LAPIN: LIFE AND ACTIVITY (Russian) // Bulletin of Kazakh National Pedagogical University named after Abai, a series of "Historical and socio-political sciences." - 2012. - No. 3 (34) . - S. 81-83 .