Platon Oyunsky

Platon Oyunsky
Платон Ойунский
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Yakut ASSR
In office
21 January 1923  5 July 1926
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byMikhail Megezheksky
Personal details
Born(1893-12-30)30 December 1893
Yakutia, Russian Empire
Died31 October 1939(1939-10-31) (aged 45)
Yakutsk, USSR
NationalitySakha (Yakut)
OccupationPoet, playwright
Writing career
GenrePoetry, drama, short stories

Platon Oyunsky (Russian: Платон Ойунский, Yakut: Былатыан Ойуунускай, romanized: Bılatıan Oyûnuskay; 11 November [O.S. 30 December] 1893 31 October 1939), born Platon Alekseevich Sleptsov, (Russian: Платон Алексеевич Слепцов) was a Yakut Soviet writer, philologist and public figure, and one of the founders of Yakut literature. Oyunsky, together with Maksim Ammosov and Isidor Barakhov, played a major role in the formation of the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. He was executed during the Great Purge.