Platon Oyunsky
Platon Oyunsky | |
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Платон Ойунский | |
| Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Yakut ASSR | |
| In office 21 January 1923 – 5 July 1926 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Mikhail Megezheksky |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 December 1893 Yakutia, Russian Empire |
| Died | 31 October 1939 (aged 45) Yakutsk, USSR |
| Nationality | Sakha (Yakut) |
| Occupation | Poet, playwright |
| Writing career | |
| Genre | Poetry, 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.