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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

Sultanmurad AKBIEV about Tukay…

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...


Yanis SUDRABKALNS about Tukay…

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 KLABIKOV about Tukay…

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 about Tukay…

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 about Tukay…

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 about Tukay…

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 about Tukay…

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 about Tukay…

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 about Tukay…

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...