Kuba Shaaban : (15 January 1890 – 20 January 1974), was a Russian

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;(Circassian ethnic) Writer

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, Historian

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, and playwright

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. famous for his advocacy of the Circassians Culture and he produced works in almost every literary

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 form including plays, poetry, novel

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s, essay

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s, and historical works.

Shaaban spent his life traveling between different countries with Circassians diaspora, like Germany

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, Turkey

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, Syria

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, Jordan

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, France

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, and finally to the USA; gathering different types of the Circassian heritage, and he succeeded to change the writing alphabet of the Circassian language from Cyrillic alphabet

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 to Latin

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 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.