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Olzhas Suleimenov

Poet from Kazakhstan who founded the Nevada-Semipalatinsk anti-nuclear movement in February 1989.

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Soviet nuclear tests at Semipalatinsk 26 Feb 1989 told television viewers about the gas leak from an underground test and called a meeting Scholarship & press 3

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The lasting toll of Semipalatinsk's nuclear testing (Togzhan Kassenova), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 28 Sep 2009. Scholarship & press
In February 1989, thousands gathered in Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan at the time, to hear the Kazakh poet Olzhas Suleimenov condemn nuclear testing and announce the creation of the anti-nuclear organization Nevada-Semipalatinsk.
Is this the end of nuclear tests?, e-history.kz (History of Kazakhstan portal), 18 Oct 2016. Scholarship & press
A rally of the society took place in Alma-Ata, where it was decided to establish the anti-nuclear movement, chaired by O. Suleimenov.
Partisans, Plutonium, and the Polygon: The Domestic and Global Impact of the Nevada-Semipalatinsk Movement (MA thesis), Carleton University, Ottawa, 2024. Scholarship & press
During a poetry reading on republican television on February 26, Suleimenov took his opportunity on air to inform the broader public about the accident.
He concluded his statement by inviting those interested in stopping nuclear tests to the Union Hall of Writers in Alma-Ata for a meeting on February 28.

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