Zunun Taipov

Zunun Taipov
Zunun Taipov
Born	18 August 1917; Jarkent, Russian Empire
Died	12 October 1984 (aged 67); Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan
Buried	Dostyk, Kazakhstan
Allegiance	East Turkestan Republic (1944–1946); People's Republic of China (1949–1961);
Branch	East Turkestan National Army (1945–1949); People's Liberation Army (1949–1961);
Rank	Major General of the PLA
Battles / wars	Ili Rebellion (1944–1946)
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	祖农·太也夫
Traditional Chinese	祖農·太也夫
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zǔnóng Tàiyěfū
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	祖农·塔约夫
Traditional Chinese	祖農·塔約夫
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zǔnóng Tǎyuēfū
Uyghur name
Uyghur	زۇنۇن تايوف‎
Latin Yëziqi
Transcriptions
Latin Yëziqi	Zunun Tayof
Siril Yëziqi	Зунун Тайоф
Russian name
Russian	Зунун Таипович Таипов

Zunun Taipovich Taipov (18 August 1917 – 12 October 1984) was a Chinese Tatar military officer in the armies of the Second East Turkestan Republic and the People's Republic of China.^[1] He defected to the Soviet Union in the 1962 Yi–Ta incident, amid the Sino-Soviet split. He died in Alma-Ata (Almaty), Kazakhstan, in 1984.^[2]

References

^ Wang, Ke (15 March 2020). The East Turkestan Independence Movement, 1930s to 1940s. Translated by Fletcher, Carissa. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-962-996-769-7.
^ Chen, Jack (1977). The Sinkiang Story. Macmillan. p. 287. ISBN 978-0-02-524640-9.