News by category - Tukay is a peoples soul

Vsevolod ROZHDESTVENSKY about Tukay...

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, th...

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 Yese...

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 rol...

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 construct...

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 n...

Olzhas SULEIMENOV about Tukay...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 be...

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....

Chinghiz AITMATOV about Tukay...

…How do such talents appear? How could Lermontov be born? And how could Tukay be born? Wonderful maturity of Tukay’s talent surprises.

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 natu...