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Zunun Taipov

Zunun Taipov

Chinese Tatar military officer (1917–1984)

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]

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  1. [1]
    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.
  2. [2]
    Chen, Jack (1977). The Sinkiang Story. Macmillan. p. 287. ISBN 978-0-02-524640-9.
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