Mustai Karimov: Biography and Creativity

Karimov Mustafa Safich (under his works he signed the pseudonym Mustay Karim or Mustai Karimov) - a famous Soviet writer, poet and playwright, in 1963 received the title of People's Poet of the Bashkir ASSR, and in 1979 - the honorary title of Hero of Socialist Labor. Thanks to his active creative work, in 1972 he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR. A little later, in 1984, he became a laureate of the Lenin Prize. Mustay Karim was a participant of the Second World War. From 1944 he was in the CPSU (b).

Mustai Karimov: Biography

Karimov Mustafa was born on October 20, 1919 in the village of Klyash, which was in the Ufa district of the Safarov parish of the Republic of Bashkortostan (today it is Bashkortostan, Russia). His father was a Tatar by nationality and a peasant from the middle peasants. There were 12 children in the parents' family. Childhood of Mustafa passed in the difficult years of collectivization. The Tatar people were full of doubts and anxieties, but still lived with expectations and dreams of their better future.

Thanks to his mother, Mustafa Karimov heard a lot of oral folk art . His biography indicates that he was always impressed by legends and legends. He loved life in the village and gatherings near the fire, when the situation itself had many interesting and exciting stories to tell.

War time

And then Mustai Karim went to school. After graduating from it, he began to study at the Bashkir Pedagogical Institute. Timiryazev at the Faculty of National Language and Literature. However, something already written by Mustai Karimov. The biography of the poet has data that he had already managed to publish a collection of poems called "The detachment moved" (1938).

In 1941, he graduated from the institute and was immediately drafted into the Red Army, where he received a referral to the Murom College of Communications. That's what Mustai Karim looked like (photo before the war below).

In the same 41-m left his book of poems "Spring Voices". In early May 1942, the writer was sent to war in the 17th motorized infantry brigade. He served as a junior lieutenant, was appointed head of communications artdiviziona.

Wounding and demobilization

At war, the writer also got a lot, as he was seriously injured in the chest and almost half a year lay in a military hospital. Then the Red Army soldier Mustai Karim was demobilized for disability. A brief biography further indicates that he was already in the front line as a correspondent for front-line periodicals, in particular, the newspapers "Soviet Warrior" and "For the Honor of the Motherland". In 1945 he was awarded the Order of the Great Patriotic War of the 2nd degree and the Order of the Red Star.

Biography (short) Karima Mustai

Literary critics admit that Mustafa's real talent was revealed precisely in wartime. After the war, the writer immersed himself in creativity and engaged in social activities. His original creativity could not but attract a huge number of readers and special attention of critics.

Mustay Karim is actively taking up work at the Soviet Writers' Union of the BASSR and this makes a huge contribution to the upbringing of a new generation of young writers in Bashkortostan. Soon he becomes chairman of his board. Then he works as a secretary in the Union of Writers of the RSFSR. Being a member of the Writers' Union, he repeatedly becomes a delegate to the congresses of the CPSU.

Social work

Mustay Karim was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. Then he held the post of deputy chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. Then he worked for some time at the Committee on Lenin Prizes, as well as in the Committee for the Protection of Peace and other organizations for working with the public. A little later, the writer was a member of the Presidential Council of the Republic of Bashkortostan. Almost all of his social activities were aimed at the idea of cultivating humanity and kindness in society, as well as sincerity and freedom in the soul of every Soviet person.

That was all Mustai Karimov. Biography, or rather the life of the writer, ended when he was 86, it happened in the cardiac dispensary of Ufa. The reason for this was an extensive heart attack, and an old wound for sure also played an important role. His funeral took place on September 23, 2005 at a Muslim cemetery in the city of Ufa. In the last way to spend it came a lot of people: his family, close friends, fans of his talent and colleagues in public and literary work. The solemn ceremony of the funeral was organized at the highest level. It seemed that the whole country froze to honor a minute of silence of this great man.

Famous works

It was printed under the name of Mustai Karim. His works are now immortal for the Bashkir people. There are more than 100 prosaic and poetic collections and over a dozen fascinating dramatic works. The great man was Mustai Karim. You can see a photo of his monument in Ufa below.

The most famous works that were released were included in collections of poems and poems "Return", "Black Waters", "The Times", "Europe-Asia"; Also they include plays "Salavat. Seven Dreams Through Reality "," Abduction of a Girl "," Aigul Country "," Do not Give Up Fire, Prometheus "," On the Night of the Lunar Eclipse "; Stories "Taganok", "Long-long childhood", "Pardon", "Village lawyers", "Joy of our house", etc.

Many of the works of this outstanding writer have been translated into different languages of Russia and the world. In 2004 the novel "Long-Long Childhood" directed by Bulat Yusupov was screened.

Mustai Karimov became the owner of a huge number of orders and medals, among them two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Badge of Honor, etc.