| Summary: | <p align="justify">While struggling for independence, the nations under Russian occupation, were supporting one another openly or confidentially. It did not escape from gendarme’s and KGB’s attention. They started realizing open and confidential punishment measures against freedom fighters. Asan Rıfatov who was born in Crimea in 1902 and left for Baku in 1926 to study is one of the personalities facing punishment by KGB. He was interrogated in Crimea in 1937. Asan Rıfatov who was shot by KGB at 35 played an important role not only in Crimean and Azerbaijani music moreover his great efforts covered the development of the whole Turkic culture. At the very young age-21 he wrote the first opera of Crimean turks “Chorabatir” and staged it. His compositions were played in the feasts and festivals organized in Baku, Moscow and Paris. Asan Rıfatov, a composer and teacher in music, was invited to Crimea from Baku in 1935 where he was shot to death in 1937. His father, mother and siblings were apprehended later on being either shot to death or sent to jails.</p>
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