Platon Alekseievich Oiunskii

• Name — Platon Oyunsky • Office1 — Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Yakut ASSR • Term Start1 — 21 January 1923 • Term End1 — 5 July 1926 • Predecessor1 — Position established • Successor1 — Mikhail Megezheksky • Born — 30 December 1893 • Birthplace — Yakutia, Russian Empire • Died — 31 October 1939 • Place of death — Yakutsk, USSR • Occupation — Poet, playwright

Oyunsky was born in 3 Zhekhsogon nasleg of Boturuss (now Tatta) ulus. The etymology of the family name "Sleptsov" comes from the word meaning "a shaman." This became the source of Oyunsky's pen name.

• Illustration — Oyunsky (seated center) at the First All-Yakut Constituent Congress of Soviets, 1923 Oyunsky became a member of the Russian Communist Party in March 1918. From 1921 to 1922 he served as Chairman of the Yakut Revolutionary Committee, and from 1923 to 1926 as the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Yakut ASSR. Sleptsov was a Soviet Yakut statesman, writer, translator and champion of the Yakut language. In addition, he was seen as one of the founders of modern Yakut literature. He took part in creating the national written language and in culturally building the modern Yakut nation. Oyunsky was one of organizers of the Yakut Autonomous Republic, the Union of Writers of Yakutia, and the Language and Literature Scientific Research Institute. Oyunsky collected and published a number of Olonkho epic poems from the collected heroic epic poetry of the Yakuts.

• Illustration — Oyunsky's NKVD mugshot, 1938 Oyunsky was prosecuted during the Great Purge, and died in prison in Yakutsk in 1939. He was officially rehabilitated on 15 October 1955.

Oyunsky's daughter Sardana was a folklorist of note.