Kuba Shaaban, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kuba Shaaban

Russian writer and historian

Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1890

Place of Birth: Khakurinokhabl, Russia

Date of Death: 20-Jan-1974

Profession: writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Kuba Shaaban (Adyghe: ???? ?????; Arabic: ???? ??????; Russian: ????? ?????; b.
15 January 1890 – 20 January 1974), was a Circassian) writer, historian, and playwright.
famous for his advocacy of the circassians culture and he produced works in almost every literary form including plays, poetry, novels, essays, and historical works. Shaaban spent his life traveling between different countries with Circassian diaspora, like Germany, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, France, and finally to the US; gathering different types of the Circassian heritage, and he succeeded to change the writing alphabet of the Circassian language from Cyrillic script an Latin among the Circassians diaspora. Shaaban wrote many plays such as "The Circassians battles" and "The Immigration of the Circassians", and many books like "The Grammar of the Circassian Language", "Circassian Alphabet". The ministry of culture in the Republic of Adygea held in December 2010 a memorial day dedicated to Shaaban on his 120 years anniversary.