Tukay is a peoples soul

Birde Kerbabaev, Turkmen poet. At the beginning of the XXth century the culture of the Tatar nation was much developed than the culture of people of Central Asia. That time the Tatar culture had good...

Mirsaid Mirshakar, Tajik writer: The name of Gabdulla Tukay, the great son of the Tatar nation, is very important for the Tajik people too. He served as a bridge connecting great thinkers of Russia with...

Kaysyn Kuliev (1917-1985) Balkar poet, National Poet of the Kabardino-Balkar ASSR (1967), USSR State and Lenin Prizes laureate (1974, 1990): I believe that there was no any writer writing in the Turkic languages who did...

Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, Azerbaijanian poet: Every time I read the works of our great poet Mirza Sabir, I remember about great poet of the Tatar nation Gabdulla Tukay. Probably it is because of the similarity of...

 Peder Khuzanday (1907 – 1970) Poet. National Poet of the Chuvash ASSR (1950), Laureate of the State Prize of the Chuvash ASSR named after Konstantin Ivanov (1967): I first read Tukay in translation made by...

Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky (1895–1977), Russian poet: All the work of Tukay is devoted to the real ideals of democracy. His flaming words managed to overcome all the obstacles even in the darkest, the most hideous conditions...

Pavel Radimov (1887 — 1967) poet, pedagogue, painter:   The first translator of Gabdulla Tukay’s “Shurale” and some other poems into the Russian language. “What a great poet!” told Sergey Yesenin about Tukay. While having...

Maxim Gorky (Aleksey Peshkov, 1868 – 1936) Russian writer, public figure: This world is not for the artists; it is too small and inconvenient for them, however, more honorable and heroic their role becomes. Dying...

Ruvim Moran (1908-1986) Russian poet, translator: The work of Tukay that has not been studied till the end yet is pressed into short seven years, but its richness would be enough for more than one...

Dzhovanny Zhermanetto, Italian poet: As I visited Kazan for the first time, I immediately heard about famous Tatar poet Gabdulla Tukay. Not only professional writers, but even plants and construction workers, students and pupils told...