 Students of the university included Sen Katayama, Tan Malaka, Liu Shaoqi and Ho Chi Minh.The great purge in the Muslim republics began in 1928 with executions of Veli Ibrahimov of the Tatar Communist Party and Milli Firka followed by the leaders of Hummet, Tatar Communist Party and even the Tatar Union of the Godless.It also happened in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and the Young Bukharians.