10 facts about Ilyas Zhansugurov

We offer 10 facts about the Kazakh poet, playwright, novelist, feuilletonist, satirist, journalist, translator and public figure Ilyas Zhansugurov.

1) Ilyas Zhansugurov was born on May 14, 1894 in Aksu district of Almaty region. Having lost his mother early, he grew up watching his father's upbringing.

2) First he opened a letter from his father, from rural mullahs. In the village of Karagash, jaditshe finishes primary school.

3) In 1919, he entered a two-year teaching course in Tashkent. After graduation, he worked as a teacher in his village, then worked in the newspaper "correspondent".

4) In 1922 he was appointed head of the Kazakh Institute of Education in Alma-Ata.In 1925 he entered the Institute of Journalism in Moscow.

5) In 1928, after graduating from the institute, he was sent to serve in the newspaper "Enbekshi Kazak". Along with his work on the works of Zhansugurov, he took an active part in the organization of the Writers' Union of Kazakhstan. After the dissolution of the former Kazapp (1926) in 1932, he was elected chairman of the organizational commission of the Writers' Union.

6) At the 1st Congress in 1934, he was elected the first chairman of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan.In 1934-1937 he worked as an editor of the Kazakh political publishing house.

7) He translated into Kazakh the works of A. S. Pushkin, M. Y. Lermontov, N.A. Nekrasov, Maxim Gorky, Heinrich Heine and Victor Hugo, G. Tokai, K. Lahuti and expanded the links of Kazakh literature with world literature.

8) In August 1937, Ilyas Zhansugurov became a victim of political repression and was arrested. In 1938, the inspired poet was sentenced to death at the age of 44.

9) His "Baishubar", "attraction to children". The first collection of works "saganak".The poem "kui". " Kek" and" Turksib" - poem"Kuishi", play"Isatai-Makhambet" and"Kuishi","Kuishi","Dala","Rustem kangyru","Isatai"," Makpal"," Baikal"," concubine"," Kosbala","Kuat","There are postmas"literary front"," corpse","happy Jamal".

10) Zhetysu University named after Ilyas Zhansugurov is located in the city of Taldykorgan.