AMANTAY (Amantayev) Gabdulla Gareyevich

AMANTAY (Amantayev) Gabdulla Gareyevich (23.2.1907, Derevnya Verkhne­Kunakbayevo of Orenb. Uyezd of the same name gub. (now Selo Verkhne Kunakbay of Perevolotsky Raion of Orenb. Obl.) – 10.7.1938), Writer and Philologist. Member of the Union of Writers of the BASSR. Graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Philosophy and Linguistics in 1931. Author of the Songs of the Struggle (1927) collection of poems and others, as well as The Little Friends (1928) and The Diligent Vali (1928) books for children, etc.

A. was among the first philologists who began to study the Bashkir folklore and the problems of its relationship with literature. Author of Students’ and Teachers’ books for learning and teaching the Bashkir language and literature at general education schools. Delegate of the 1st Congress of Soviet Bashkiria Writers in Ufa in 1934, and the 1st All­Union Congress of Soviet Writers in Moscow in 1934. In 1937, he was subjected to political purges and executed by shooting. Rehabilitated in 1957.