Karimov Mustafa Safich (under his works he signed the pseudonym Mustai Karim or Mustai Karimov) - a famous Soviet writer, poet and playwright, who in 1963 received the title of People's Poet of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and in 1979 - the honorary title of Hero of Socialist Labor. Thanks to his active creative work, in 1972 he was awarded the USSR State Prize. A little later, in 1984, he became the Lenin Prize Laureate. Mustay Karim was a member of the Second World War. Since 1944 he was in the CPSU (b).
Mustay Karimov: biography
Karimov Mustafa was born on October 20, 1919 in the village of Klyash, which was in the Ufa district of the Safarovsky volost of the Republic of Bashkiria (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 parental family. Mustafa’s childhood passed in the difficult years of collectivization. The Tatar people were full of doubts and worries, but still lived with expectations and dreams of their better future.
Thanks to his mother, Mustai Karimov heard a lot of oral folk art . His biography indicates that he was always impressed by legends and traditions. He loved life in the aul and gatherings near the fire, when the situation itself was ready to tell many interesting and exciting stories.
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, Mustay Karimov has already written something. The biography of the poet has evidence that by this time he managed to print a collection of poems called "The detachment moved off" (1938).
In 1941, he graduated from the institute and was immediately drafted into the Red Army, where he was sent to the Murom School of Communications. That's what Mustay Karim looked like then (photo before the war below).
In the same 41th he published his book of poems "Spring Voices". In early May 1942, the writer was sent to war in the 17th motorized rifle brigade. He went to serve as a junior lieutenant, was appointed chief of communications of the artillery division.
Injury and Demobilization
In the war, the writer also got a lot, since he was seriously wounded in the chest and spent almost half a year in a military hospital. Then, a Red Army fighter Mustai Karim was demobilized by disability. A brief biography further indicates that he was already at the forefront as a correspondent for front-line periodicals, in particular, the newspapers Sovetsky Warrior and For Honor of the Homeland. 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 plunges into creativity and engages in social activities. His original work could not fail to attract a huge number of readers and special attention of critics.
Mustai Karim is actively taking up work in the Union of Soviet Writers of the BASSR, and this makes a huge contribution to the upbringing of a new generation of young writers in Bashkortostan. He soon 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 Council of the RSFSR. Then he served as deputy chairman of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR. Then he worked for some time in the Committee on Lenin Prizes, as well as in the Committee for the Defense of the World and in other organizations for working with the public. A little later, the writer was a member of the Presidential Council of the Republic of Bashkiria. Almost all of his social activities were aimed at the ideas of cultivating humanity and kindness in society, as well as sincerity and freedom in the soul of every Soviet person.
That was the whole Mustai Karimov. Biography, or rather the life of the writer, was cut short when he was 86 years old, this happened in the cardiology clinic of Ufa. The reason for this was an extensive heart attack, and the old battle wound probably also played an important role. His funeral took place on September 23, 2005 at a Muslim cemetery in the city of Ufa. A lot of people came to visit him on his last trip: his family, close friends, admirers of his talent and colleagues in public and literary work. The funeral ceremony was organized at the highest level. It seemed that the whole country froze to honor the minute of silence of this great man.
Famous works
It was printed under the name Mustai Karim. His works are now immortal for the Bashkir people. There are more than 100 prose and poetry 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 the collections of poems and poems "Return", "Black Waters", "Times", "Europe-Asia"; the plays “Salavat. Seven dreams through reality ”,“ Abduction of a girl ”,“ Country Aigul ”,“ Do not throw fire, Prometheus ”,“ On the night of the lunar eclipse ”; the stories “Taganok”, “Long, long childhood”, “Clemency”, “Village lawyers”, “The joy of our house”, etc.
Many works of this outstanding writer are translated into different languages of Russia and the world. In 2004, the story Long, Long Childhood, directed by Bulat Yusupov, was filmed .
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.