Zunun Taipov

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]

Zunun Taipov
Born	(1917-08-18)18 August 1917 Jarkent, Russian Empire
Died	12 October 1984(1984-10-12) (aged 67) Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan
Buried	Dostyk, Kazakhstan
Allegiance	People's Republic of China (1949–1961)  East Turkestan Republic (1944–1946)
Service / branch	People's Liberation Army (1949–1961) East Turkestan National Army (1945–1949)
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
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zǔnóng Tàiyěfū
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	祖农·塔约夫
Traditional Chinese	祖農·塔約夫
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zǔnóng Tǎyuēfū
Uyghur name
Uyghur	زۇنۇن تايوف‎
Transcriptions Latin Yëziqi Zunun Tayof Siril Yëziqi Зунун Тайоф
Russian name
Russian	Зунун Таипович Таипов

References

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