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Samson Chanba

Abkhazian educator, poet, and dramatist
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Also known as: Samson Iakovlevich Chanba, Samson Kuagu-ipa Chanba
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Abkhaz in full:
Samson Kuagu-ipa Chanba
Russian in full:
Samson Iakovlevich Chanba
Born:
June 18, 1886, Atara, Abkhazia, Russian Empire
Died:
1937, Abkhazia, Georgia, U.S.S.R. (aged 50)
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Samson Chanba (born June 18, 1886, Atara, Abkhazia, Russian Empire—died 1937, Abkhazia, Georgia, U.S.S.R.) was an Abkhazian educator, poet, and dramatist, best known for his contribution to the development of Abkhazian drama. Chanba trained as a teacher in Abkhazia. He taught for several decades in Abkhazian villages and later in Sokhumi, the capital of Abkhazia, before his first major publication, the long poem Daughter of the Mountains, appeared in 1919. An enthusiastic supporter of the Bolshevik Revolution, he joined the Communist Party in 1921, the year that he took on joint editorship (with M. Khashba) of the Abkhaz-language newspaper Red ...(100 of 244 words)

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