Abdulkerim Abbas

Abdulkerim Abbas
ئابدۇكىرىم ئابباسوف
Deputy Secretary-General of the Coalition Government of Xinjiang Province
In office 1 July 1946 – 12 August 1947
Interior Minister of the East Turkestan Republic
In office 18 November 1944 – 1 July 1946
Personal details
Born	1921 (1921) Przhevalsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	27 August 1949(1949-08-27) (aged 27–28) Kabansk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Xinjiang League (from 1947) Democratic Revolutionary Party (1947) East Turkestan Revolutionary Party (1946–1947)
Spouse	Lü Suxin ​ (m. 1946)​
Military service
Allegiance	East Turkestan Republic
Branch/service	East Turkestan National Army
Years of service	1945–1949
Rank	Lieutenant Colonel
Battles/wars	Ili Rebellion
Uyghur name
Uyghur	ئابدۇكىرىم ئابباسوف‎
Transcriptions Latin Yëziqi Abdukirim Abbasof
Chinese name
Chinese	阿不都克里木·阿巴索夫
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Ābùdūkèlǐmù Ābāsuǒfū
Russian name
Russian	Абдулкерим Аббасов
Romanization	Abdulkerim Abbasov

Abdulkerim Abbas (also russified as Abbasov; 1921 – 27 August 1949) was a Uyghur revolutionary active in Xinjiang, China, during the 20th century. He was one of the leaders of the Ili Rebellion of 1944, which led to the founding of the Second East Turkestan Republic (ETR) in northern Xinjiang. Abbas, along with Ehmetjan Qasim, headed the Marxist faction within the ETR, which in 1946 set aside the rebellion's declaration of independence and joined the Chinese nationalists in forming a provincial coalition government.

Abbas and Qasim led the ETR faction which joined the Chinese communists toward the end of the Chinese Civil War. They and several other senior leaders of the ETR perished in August 1949 in a plane crash while traveling en route to Beiping (Beijing) where they were invited to participate in the Chinese communists' political consultative conference, which resulted in the founding of the People's Republic of China. Abbas is officially hailed in the People's Republic of China as a revolutionary martyr.