Tukay is a peoples soul
Sultanmurad Akbiev, Kumyk theorist of literature: The poetry of Gabdulla Tukay, along with the traditions of the Kumyk literature, its oral folk arts, positively influenced the acievments of the national poet of Dagestan, a walking...
Olzhas Suleimenov, Kazakh poet: Kazan has at all times excited the imagination of the steppes by its complicated and bright image. At the beginning of the century the poetry of Gabdulla Tukay was an integral...
Yanis Sudrabkalns (1894–1975) — Latvian poet, publicist, USSR State Prize laureate (1948), National Poet of the Latvian SSR (1947): Exciting and being very grateful, I read poems of Gabdulla Tukay these days. His sound began ringing...
Arkadiy Klabukov, Udmurt writer: The Udmurt nation amusedly reads the works of Gabdulla Tukay translated into its native language. His poems, translated by Gay Sabitov, have been published several times. Gabdulla Tukay, who glorified the...
Abrar Karimullin (1925-2000) — Theorist of literature, philologist, bibliographer. Honoured Science Worker of the Tatar ASSR (1990), Gabdulla Tukay TASSR State Prize laureate (1991), Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan...
Kiray Margan (1912-1984) – Bashkir writer, folklore specialist, Doctor of Philology (1963): Gabdulla Tukay influenced Bashkir literature and culture a lot. This influence does not come just to the development and formation of the Bashkir...
Nikolai Baboglo, Gagauz writer: The Tatar literature and particularly Gabdulla Tukay opened to me a big Turkic world, which we turned out to be alienated from. That’s why reading the Tatar poet became not only...
David Kugultinov, Kalmyk poet: It seems that Tukay’s poetry coopted the time with all its concerns and all its problems. Time is a life of people, their customs, traditions, and relationships. And particularly Tukay’s...
Chinghiz Aitmatov (1928-2008), Kyrgyz writer, Lenin (1963) and USSR State Prizes laureate (1968, 1977, 1983), National Poet of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic (1968): I am powered by the feeling of appreciation of the talent...
Rasul Gamzatov (1923-2003), Avar poet, USSR State Prize laureate (1952), National Poet of Dagestan (1959), Lenin Prize laureate (1963): Tukay is like an evidence of greatness of the gifted nature of his outstanding great...
