Shokan Shinghisuly Walikhanuli (Kazakh: Шоқан Шыңғысұлы Уәлиханұлы; Russian: Чокан Чингисович Валиханов), real name Muxammed Qanafïya (Kazakh: Мұхаммед Қанафия), as Shokan was his nickname which eventually become official name, (November of 1835 — April 10, 1865) was the first Kazakh scholar, ethnographer and historian. He is regarded as the father of Kazakh historiography and ethnography. The Kazakh Academy of Sciences is named after him.
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Shokan Shinghisuly Walikhanuli (Kazakh: Шоқан Шыңғысұлы Уәлиханұлы; Russian: Чокан Чингисович Валиханов), real name Muxammed Qanafïya (Kazakh: Мұхаммед Қанафия), as Shokan was his nickname which eventually become official name, (November of 1835 — April 10, 1865) was the first Kazakh scholar, ethnographer and historian. He is regarded as the father of Kazakh historiography and ethnography. The Kazakh Academy of Sciences is named after him.
A male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, Walikhanuli was born at the house of his grandfather, Wali Khan, whose own grandfather was Ablai Khan, the great khan of the Middle jüz. He received early education in his village Kushmurune at a private Kazakh maktab, or grade school.
Walikhanuli was one of the first Kazakhs educated in Russian language and worked for Imperial Russia. He lived in St. Petersburg for two years and joined the staff of the Russian Geographical Society, serving as officer of the Russian army (begging from Siberian Cossacks...
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