| Platon Oyunsky | |||||
| Office1: | Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Yakut ASSR | ||||
| Term Start1: | 21 January 1923 | ||||
| Term End1: | 5 July 1926 | ||||
| Predecessor1: | Position established | ||||
| Successor1: | Mikhail Megezheksky | ||||
| Birth Date: | 1893 12, df=yes | ||||
| Birth Place: | Yakutia, Russian Empire | ||||
| Death Place: | Yakutsk, USSR | ||||
| Occupation: | Poet, playwright | ||||
| Nationality: | Sakha (Yakut) | ||||
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Platon Oyunsky (sah|Былатыан Ойуунускай|translit=Bılatıan Oyûnuskay; - 31 October 1939), born Platon Alekseevich Sleptsov, (ru|Платон Алексеевич Слепцов) was a Yakut Soviet writer, philologist and public figure, and one of the founders of Yakut literature.
Oyunsky was born in 3 Zhekhsogon nasleg of Boturuss (now Tatta) ulus. The etymology of the family name "Sleptsov" comes from the word meaning "a shaman." This became the source of Oyunsky's pen name.[1]
Oyunsky became a member of the Russian Communist Party in March 1918. From 1921 to 1922 he served as Chairman of the Yakut Revolutionary Committee, and from 1923 to 1926 as the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.[2]
Sleptsov was a Soviet Yakut statesman, writer, translator and champion of Yakuts language. In addition, he was seen as one of the founders of modern Yakut literature. He took part in creating the national written language and in culturally building the modern Yakut nation. Oyunsky was one of organizers of the Yakut Autonomous Republic, the Union of Writers of Yakutia, and the Language and Literature Scientific Research Institute.
Oyunsky collected and published a number of Olonkho epic poems from the collected heroic epic poetry of the Yakuts.
Oyunsky was prosecuted during the Great Purge, and died in prison in Yakutsk in 1939.[3] He was officially rehabilitated on 15 October 1955.
The State Prize of the Yakut ASSR, awarded for achievements in literature, arts, and architecture, is named after him. His name also graces the Sakha Drama Theater, a literary museum, and a street in Yakutsk.
Oyunsky's daughter Sardana was a folklorist of note.[4]
A fictionalized biography of Platon Oyunsky features prominently in Stefan Sullivan's Sibirischer Schwindel (Eichborn/Frankfurt, 2002).