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50 Tenge 100th anniversary of Ermukhan Bekmahanov
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Thickness | 2 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a portrait of the Kazakhstani scientist and historian Ermukhan Bekmahanov facing slightly to one side in the central field. His facsimile signature appears below the portrait. The legend ЕРМҰХАН БЕКМАХАНОВ curves along the upper portion of the field, while the inscription 100 ЖЫЛ (100 years) and the issue year 2015 are positioned in the lower field, commemorating the centennial of his birth. |
| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Ermukhan Bekmakhanov was a Soviet-era Kazakh historian whose 1947 monograph on the 19th-century leader Kenesary Kasymov landed him in a Siberian labor camp. The work was denounced as nationalist and ideologically dangerous — Kenesary's armed resistance against Russian imperial expansion was not a subject the Stalin-era academy tolerated being treated with sympathy. Bekmakhanov was rehabilitated after Stalin's death and eventually restored to academic standing, but the episode left a permanent mark on how Kazakh historiography developed under Soviet constraints.