He could have built a career in St. Petersburg, but he returned to Crimea and dedicated himself to preserving Crimean Tatar heritage. Usein Bodaninsky was born on December 1. Through his efforts in 1917, the Crimean Tatar Museum was opened in the Khan’s Palace, whose first collection Bodaninsky painstakingly gathered bit by bit.
Based on materials from Aydın Şemiy-zade.
