Tukay is a peoples soul

• Miklay KAZAKOV about Tukay...

  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 o...

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• Amirkhan YENIKI about Tukay...

  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...

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• Fatih HOSNI about Tukay...

  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...

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• Musa JALIL about Tukay...

  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 m...

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• Mintimer SHAIMIEV about Tukay...

  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, o...

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• Sahib DJAMAL about Tukay...

  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...

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• Sagit AGISH about Tukay...

  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...

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• Gumer BASHIROV about Tukay...

  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 h...

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• Khasan TUFAN about Tukay...

  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 natio...

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• Michael FRIEDRICH about Tukay...

  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 q...

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• Ayhan YENAL about Tukay...

  Ayhan Yenal, Turkish poet:   Tukay is one of the most outstanding poets of the Turkic world. He is a poet who can be understood without any translation. Tukay is an illimitable ocean and encourag...

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• Tursun KAHARI about Tukay...

  Tursun Kahari, Uigurian poet:   Gabdulla Tukay was a teacher for a lot of Uigurian poets who even in Kuomintang’s torture chambers recited the works of Tukay.

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• Ibragim YUSUPOV about Tukay...

  Ibragim Yusupov, Kara-Kalpak poet: From the first day of meeting with Tukay’s works, the great Tatar poet became my all-time favourite poet and teacher. Being just a student of pedagogical Institu...

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• Rafael KHAKIMOV about Tukay...

  Rafael Khakimov (b.1947), Statesman, Honoured Science Worker of the Republic of Tatarstan (1997):   Each nation has its own Tukay. He is a celestial visitant who goes through fateful periods of t...

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• Hatyp MINNEGULOV about Tukay...

  Hatyp Minnegulov (b.1939), Theorist of literature, Doctor of Philology (1991), Professor (1992), Honoured Science Worker of the Republic of Tatarstan (1994), State Prize of the Republic of Tatarstan...

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