Tukay is a peoples soul

Miklay Kazakov (1918-1989), Mari poet, National Poet of the Republic of Mari El (1960), USSR State Prize laureate (1951): Kazan is not only a centre of the Tatar culture, but it is also a cradle...

Amirkhan Yeniki (1909-2000), Writer, Gabdulla Tukay TASSR State Prize laureate (1984), National Writer of the TASSR (1989): Tukay is certainly much closer to the writers of my generation. When we were born, Tukay was alive...

Fatih Hosni (1908–1996), Writer, Gabdulla Tukay TASSR State Prize laureate (1972), National Writer of the Republic of Tatarstan (1993):   …Tukay has become a whole epoch. Studying the history of our nation, we cannot avoid...

Musa Jalil (1906-1944), Poet, Hero of the Soviet Union (1956), Lenin Prize laureate (1957): Tukay… he strived for justice and idea of equality, which the most of people dreamed of. That’s why he managed to...

Mintimer Shaimiev, The First President of The Republic of Tatarstan: We lived with Tukay all the XXth century and entered into the XXIst century also with him. While Tukay’s body of work exists, our nation...

Sahib Djamal, Arabic writer: I have wholeheartedly come to love Tukay, a great son of the talented Tatar nation, and now tremblingly write these lines about him. My soul is overwhelmed with pride for him....

Sagit Agish (1904-1973), Bashkir writer, Salawat Yulayev BASSR Republic Prize laureate (1975): Once I asked one of my best friends, who knew literature very well, “Who is your favourite Tatar poet?” He did not like...

Gumer Bashirov (1901-1999), Writer, public figure, National Writer of the TASSR (1986), State Prize of the Republic of Tatarstan named after Gabdulla Tukay laureate (1958): Great talents usually have their own wonderful peculiarities. Philosophical sense...

Khasan Tufan (1900-1981), Poet, Gabdulla Tukay TASSR State Prize laureate (1966): How short his life was! Yet what a great legendary event his short life has become! He was a real son of his nation:...

Michael Friedrich, Bamberg University Professor: Tukay was a real national poet and lived in the same way as ordinary people did. That’s why people loved him, loved him so much, that innumerable quantity of people...