Şaja Batyrow
Şaja Batyrowiç Batyrow was a Soviet politician who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan. He also was head of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan from 1959 to 1965.
Biography
He was born into the family of a wealthy merchant in the village of Desht in the Transcaspian region of the Russian Empire. He was a Turkmen, a descendant of the Teke tribe. His term as first secretary lasted from March 1947 until 1950, when Balyş Öwezow succeeded him.From 1954-1959, he was Director of the Turkmen Pedagogical Institute. In 1959 he was elected Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Turkmen SSR and President of the Academy of Sciences of the Turkmen SSR. In 1962, for the monograph "Formation and Development of Socialist Nations in the USSR" he received the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences.
He died on October 14, 1965. He was buried at the Vatutinsky Cemetery in Ashgabat. He received the Order of Lenin.