Letter from A. Z. Validov to V. Lenin, 20 February, 1923
Validov Akhmed-Zaki (12/10/1890, village of Kuzyanova, Sterlitamak district, Ufa province – 07/26/1970, Istanbul). Ufa district. No. 11 – Bashkirs-federalists.
Sterlitamak. Son of a mullah. Graduated from the Kazan madrasah. Supervised since 1913. Worked in the bureau of the Muslim faction of the IV Duma. In 1917, member of the Provisional Muslim Bureau in Petrograd. In April he joined the AKP and left in May. At the First All-Russian Muslim Congress in Moscow, he was elected to Milli-Shuro, a member of the executive committee of the All-Russian Muslim Council. In December 1917 he joined the Bashkir government. In 1918 he was a member of the Komuch and participated in the Ufa meeting. After the coup, Kolchak negotiated with Lenin and Stalin about the entry of Bashkiria into the RSFSR. Chairman of the Bashkir Revolutionary Committee (February-May 1919, March-June 1920), at the end of 1919 he joined the RCP (b). In 1920, not agreeing with the restriction of the autonomy of Bashkortostan, he fled to Turkestan, the ideologist of the Basmachi movement, then emigrated to Turkey. A prominent Turkologist, professor at Istanbul University, memoirist.