Gaisa Khamidullovich Enikeev (, ; July 2, 1864,

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— March 1931, Ufa) was a

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teacher, ethnographer, and deputy of the

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in its third and fourth convocations from the

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and

s from 1907 to 1917. Enikeev paid special attention to the protection of the interests of the Muslim population of Russian Empire. Prior to his election to the Duma, he served as the director of a cloth factory in

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and the chief administrator of the charitable and educational institutions of

. He was a member of the

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in the period of the

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and the organizer of the First All-Russian Muslim Congress in May 1917. During the Soviet era, he was a member of the board of the Vyatka Commissariat of Education and an inspector of Bashselkhozkredit; became also known as a professional connoisseur of Tatar and Bashkir folklore. Gaisa Enikeev is buried in the Muslim cemetery of Ufa.

Literature

Еникеев Гайса Хамидуллович
(in Russian) // Государственная дума Российской империи: 1906—1917 / Б. Ю. Иванов, А. А. Комзолова, И. С. Ряховская. — Москва: РОССПЭН, 2008. — P. 184—185. — 735 p. — . * Члены Государственной думы: (портреты и биографии): Четвертый созыв, 1912—1917 г. / сост. М. М. Боиович. — Москва: Тип. Т-ва И. Д. Сытина, 1913. — P. 208. — LXIV, 454, p. (in Russian) * ''Ихтисамов Х. С.'', ''Ямаева Л. А.'' Еникеев Гайса Хамидуллович (in Russian) // Башкирская энциклопедия. — Уфа: ГАУН «Башкирская энциклопедия», 2013. — .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Enikeev, Gaisa 1864 births 1931 deaths People from Bashkortostan People from Belebeyevsky Uyezd Russian Constitutional Democratic Party members Members of the 3rd State Duma of the Russian Empire Members of the 4th State Duma of the Russian Empire Folklorists from the Russian Empire