1890 Ahmad-Zaki Validi was born

125 years ago, on December 10, 1890, Akhmad-Zaki Validi (Validov), the leader of the Bashkir national liberation movement and a prominent Turkologist, was born. In 1917, he was the initiator of the creation of the Bashkir government (Bashkir Central Shuro), which on November 15 proclaimed in Orenburg the formation of the autonomy of Bashkortostan as part of federal Russia. At the head of the Bashkir regiments, Validi joined the uprising of the Czechoslovak Corps.

In early 1919, not recognizing the authority of Admiral Kolchak, Validi organized the transition of the Bashkir troops to the side of the Red Army and became chairman of the Bashkir Revolutionary Committee. Dissatisfied with the policy of the Bolsheviks in the national question, in May 1920 he raised an uprising, after the suppression of which he became one of the leaders of the Basmachi movement together with the Bukhara emir Said Alim Khan, and in 1923 he emigrated and became the leader of the Turanian movement in Turkey.