Gumar Karash
Nadiya (Nadezhda) Burkhanovna Karashayeva, Gumar Karash’s granddaughter, candidate of philological sciences, lived in Moscow since 1962. She remembered: “According to my brother Basyr, the group of gangs killed my grandfather and killed his eldest son Kadyr, who graduated from a real school in Astrakhan and who was an employee of the district police.”
According to Nadya Karashayeva, Gumar Karash had 4 sons and 2 daughters.
The eldest is Kadyr, mentioned above. The second son, Basyr, worked at the Karaganda mine as part of the Labor Army during the Great Patriotic War. He died in 1974. Bolat, Basyr’s only son, lived from 1938 to 2000. Granddaughter Balkhiya (1928 – 1990) is a daughter of Nazia, she lived with her family at the Alga station in the Aktobe region.
Of all Gumar’s children, Burkhan (1904-1967) received a higher education. He graduated from the Moscow Timiryazev Academy and got a job at the Ministry of Agriculture of the Kazakh SSR. However, he felt that his father belonged to the Alash intelligentsia group, so in 1947 he left for a remote Russian village in the Taldykorgan region. There he served as director of an agricultural technical school for about 10 years. Daughter Hamida died at an early age, at 12. And the youngest son Alikhan was missing at 21 years old during the Great Patriotic War.
Nadiya Burkhanovna, who lived in Moscow, was born in 1930 in Uralsk. Later she moved to Almaty, after graduating from a Russian secondary school, she entered the Faculty of Oriental Languages of M. Lomonosov Moscow State University and excellently graduated with honors in 1953.
In 1962, she moved to Moscow with her husband. She was the scientific secretary of the Philological Center of the Russian Academy of Education. Author of more than 120 scientific papers. In 2020, Nadezhda Burkhanovna passed away. This is the fate of the descendants of Gumar Karash.
Used literature
- Boranbaeva B. Descendants of Gumar Karash // Egemen Kazakhstan. – 2020. – November 11 (No. 216). – P. 7
