Poet (b. 1915, Oğarı Bahsan village / Kabardino /
Republic of Balkar - d. 1942). He had been given the nickname “Kıyama”
(Doomsday) in his village, because of his strong literary side and his tendency
to the art of rhetoric from his childhood. He graduated from Pyatigorsk
Teachers Training School (1931). His first poem was published in the first
anthology of Balkar Poets in 1935. He worked as an authorized secretary of the
newspaper Kommunizmge Jol. He undertook the posts of state and
party in the years of 1930.
He was the
leader of guerilla movement against the Germans under the task of Head of Çerek
District Party Committee in the Kabardino-Republic of Balkar occupation of
German Nazi Units (1942).
He was taken as prisoner in a conflict, after being
tortured by fascists, he was killed and his body was thrown to the Çirik Lake
in Balkar Plateau. Now, there is a statue of the poet near this lake. The
Oğarı Bahsan Village School has the name of Azret Budaev. His epic Bir Avcının
Hikâyesi (A Story of a Hunter) and his poem Telefon (Telephone) are very
popular works which were known by Balkar readers, especially in the period
those were written.
WORKS:
Stihle bla
Jırla (Poems and Songs, 1935), Tuvğan Jurtum (My Motherland, 1938), Ötgen Jıllada (In the Past, 1941), Nazmula Bla Jırla (Poems and Songs, 1957), Stihi i Poemı (Poems ad Epics, 1962, Russian).
REFERENCE: İhsan Işık / TEKAA (2006).
