Poet (b.
1912, Girhojan village, Baksan Region-d. 1974 Nalchik). After graduating from
School of Pedagogies in Nalchik (1934), he worked as teacher. He fought against
German Nazi Units in the side of Soviet Army in 1943 and lost his leg in the
war. He wrote poems in spite of the hard conditions of the war. There was a
strong lyricism in his war poems.
He was exiled
to Middle East with Balkar people who were victimized in 1944 by the regime of
Stalin. He dared to write a letter to Stalin telling about these injustices. He
returned from Kyrgyzstan to his homeland in 1956. His books were published in
Balkar, Russia, Nalchik and Moscow. He served as the president of Writers Union
of Kabardino-Balkar between 1938 and 1941. He is a state artist of
Kabardino-Balkar Republic.
WORKS:
Nazmula bla Jırla (Poems and
Songs, 1938), Jolla (Roads, 1956), Sağışla (Thoughts, 1958), Dorogi (Roads, Russian, Moscow, 1959), Zamanı Auazı (Voice of Time, Nalchik, in
Balkar language, 1990).
