Server Qurtseit Trupçu ( – 17 April 1938) was a Soviet Crimean Tatar politician who served as Secretary of the Crimean Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) and a

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for a few months in 1937 before he was arrested and executed as part of the

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Biography

Server Qurtseit Trupçu was born around 1908, in the Crimean village of Dereköy (now ). From 1919 to 1924, he worked as a labourer, including as a cattle herder and orphanage worker around the

Yalta Yalta (: ) is a resort town, resort city on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea. It serves as the administrative center of Yalta Municipality, one of the regions within Crimea. Yalta, along with the rest of Crime ...

area. In 1924, he joined the

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. From 1926 to 1927, Trupçu worked as an instructor and organiser of the Komsomol district committee in Yalta. In 1928, he joined the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik). Afterwards, he continued to work as an instructor and organiser of the Komsomol, but moved to the cities of

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and

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. In 1931, Trupçu was placed in charge of the Personnel Department of the Crimean Regional Committee. From 1932 to 1934, he studied at the

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, and then taught at the institute for three years. In 1937, Trupçu was chosen as Secretary of the Crimean Regional Committee. In this time, he was also part of an

, and an active participant in the

, as well as the advancement of Crimean culture (for example, the Crimean State Opera and Ballet Theatre). In September 1937, however, Trupçu was removed from office. Two months later, he was arrested. On 5 March 1938, he was sentenced to death by the

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. On 17 April 1938, he was executed in Simferopol. On 22 March 1958, he was rehabilitated due to a lack of ''

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''.

Family

Trupçu's sister was , a Crimean Tatar singer and actress who was deported to

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in 1944.

References

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