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The name of Tukay means a whole epoch in the intellectual development of the Tatar people, its literature, art and the whole culture making....

Tukay is a peoples soul



Kaysyn KULIEV about Tukay…

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...


Peder KHUZANDAY about Tukay…

 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...


Pavel RADIMOV about Tukay…

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 about Tukay…

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 about Tukay…

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 about Tukay…

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...