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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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....

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  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.

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• 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...

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