Kuzebay Gerd | |
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Born | Bolshaya Dokya, Vyatka Governorate (now Udmurtia), Russian Empire | January 14, 1898
Died | Sandarmokh, Soviet Union | November 1, 1937
Kuzma Pavlovich Chaynikov (Russian: Кузьма́ Па́влович Ча́йников), better known as Kuzebay Gerd (Russian: Кузеба́й Ге́рд; 14 January 1896, in Bolshaya Dokya village – 1 November 1937, in Sandarmokh) was an Udmurt language poet, a prose writer, a playwright, a public figure, and a nationalist.[1] He was executed in Sandarmokh during the Great Purge and was posthumously rehabilitated (exonerated) in 1958.