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Aymak Djangalievich Djangaliev (Аймак Джангалиевич Джангалиев, Аймақ Жанғалиұлы Жанғалиев, 15 August 1913 - 21 June 2009) was a Kazakh pomologist. Along with Nikolai Vavilov, he helped identify the forests of wild apples in Kazakhstan as the ancestral origin of the domesticated apple. Following Vavilov's arrest in 1940 for, among other things, his support of Mendelian genetics, which Stalin opposed, Djangaliev continued his work in secret, eventually working to protect and preserve the Kazakh apple forests after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.