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Shoqan Walikhanov

1835 - 1865

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Shokan Shyngysuly Walikhanov (Kazakh: Шоқан Шыңғысұлы Уәлихан, romanized: Şoqan Şyñğysūly Uälihan, Russian: Чокан Чингисович Валиханов), given name Mukhammed Kanafiya (Kazakh: Мұхаммед Қанафия, romanized: Mūhammed Qanafiia) (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. Valikhanov Kazakh Academy of Sciences in 1960. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shoqan Walikhanov is the 119th most popular historian (down from 96th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Kazakhstan (down from 15th in 2019) and the most popular Kazakhstani Historian.

Shoqan Walikhanov is most famous for his work on the development of the Soviet space program. He was a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and helped to design the Soviet space shuttle Buran.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Shoqan Walikhanov ranks 119 out of 561Before him are Árni Magnússon, Reinhart Koselleck, Peter Burke, Leo the Deacon, Michael Glykas, and Pierre Nora. After him are Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī, August Ludwig von Schlözer, Hayden White, Guibert of Nogent, Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, and Michael Rostovtzeff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Shoqan Walikhanov ranks 32Before him are Adolph Wagner, Elisha Gray, Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Mendele Mocher Sforim, Sai Baba of Shirdi, and Alexandrine Tinné. After him are Simon Newcomb, Iwasaki Yatarō, Tomás Estrada Palma, Eugenio Beltrami, Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and Matsukata Masayoshi. Among people deceased in 1865, Shoqan Walikhanov ranks 24Before him are Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Princess Sophie of Sweden, John Lindley, Kunisada, Felice Romani, and Constant Troyon. After him are Alexandros Mavrokordatos, Madeleine Sophie Barat, George Phillips Bond, Giuditta Pasta, James Barry, and Fredrika Bremer.

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In Kazakhstan

Among people born in Kazakhstan, Shoqan Walikhanov ranks 18 out of 193Before him are Edigu (1352), Tughlugh Timur (1329), Ablai Khan (1711), Wladimir Klitschko (1976), Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev (1952), and Mukhtar Auezov (1897). After him are Aliya Moldagulova (1925), Oleg Yankovsky (1944), Viktor Patsayev (1933), Dinmukhamed Kunaev (1912), Toktar Aubakirov (1946), and Manshuk Mametova (1922).

Among HISTORIANS In Kazakhstan

Among historians born in Kazakhstan, Shoqan Walikhanov ranks 1