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Margub Iskhakov
Chinese Tatar military officer (1923– 1992)
Margub Timergalievich Iskhakov (Chinese: 馬爾果夫·伊斯哈科夫, Russian: Маргуб Тимергалиевич Исхаков) (13 March 1923 – 1992) was a Chinese Tatar military officer who held several important commands in the armies of the Second East Turkestan Republic and the People's Republic of China. He defected to the Soviet Union in the 1962 Yi–Ta incident, amid the Sino-Soviet split. He died in Alma-Ata (Almaty), Kazakhstan, in 1992.