# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shoqan-walikhanov
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:12:32.294Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shoqan-walikhanov"
name: "Shoqan Walikhanov"
slug: "shoqan-walikhanov"
description: "Shokan Shyngysuly Walikhanov was a Kazakh scholar, ethnographer, historian and participant in the Great Game. His reputation \"as the father of modern Kazakh history and ethnography\" is recorded in the Historical Dictionary of Kazakhstan.\nThe Kazakh Academy of Sciences became the Ch.Ch. Valikhanov Kazakh Academy of Sciences in 1960.\nEnglish-language texts sometimes give his name as \"Chokan Valikhanov\", based on a transliteration of the Russian spelling\nthat he used himself."
tagline: "Kazakhstani ethnographer (1835–1865)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Russian_scientist_and_traveller_Shokan_Valikhanov_during_his_visit_in_Saint-Petersburg_in_1860.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1835"
deathDate: "1865-04-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.41
  momentum:             4.84870848708487
  historical:           20.37478533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 239
sources:
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    title: "چوقان ۋەلىخانوۋ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شوكان واليخانوڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Çokan Vəlixanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2"
    title: "Чокан Валиханов"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0okan_Valichanov"
    title: "Šokan Valichanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoqan_U%C3%A4lichanuly"
    title: "Schoqan Uälichanuly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoqan_Walikhanov"
    title: "Shoqan Walikhanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Cokan_Vali%C4%A5anov"
    title: "Ŝokan Valiĥanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoq%C3%A1n_Valij%C3%A1nov"
    title: "Shoqán Valijánov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0okan_U%C3%A4lihhanov"
    title: "Šokan Uälihhanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چوکان ولی‌خان‌اف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Šoqan Wälihanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchokan_Valikhanov"
    title: "Tchokan Valikhanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Չոքան Վալիխանով"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoqan_Walikhanov"
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    title: "チョカン・ワリハーノフ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ჩოქან ვალიხანოვი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%BE%D2%9B%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A8%D1%8B%D2%A3%D2%93%D1%8B%D1%81%D2%B1%D0%BB%D1%8B_%D0%A3%D3%99%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2"
    title: "Шоқан Шыңғысұлы Уәлиханов"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Чокан Валиханов"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czokan_Walichanow"
    title: "Czokan Walichanow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chokan_Valikhanov"
    title: "Chokan Valikhanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%A7%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A7%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Валиханов, Чокан Чингисович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjoqan_W%C3%A4lichanov"
    title: "Sjoqan Wälichanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87okan_Velihanov"
    title: "Çokan Velihanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%92%D3%99%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2"
    title: "Чокан Вәлиханов"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q135392"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump