Bashkir writer Anatoly Genatulin, writing in Russian: warrior and creator

In the history of Bashkir literature, the names of writers writing in Russian are known. These are M. Gafurov, R. Khakimov, A. Sharipov, R. Bikmukhametov, Y. Mustafin, R. Akhmedov, Y. Ilyasova, G. Shafikov, D. Daminov, R. Maksutov, S. Sadykov, and others. Many of them, by the will of fate, finding themselves far from their native land, living outside the republic, have lost the opportunity to communicate and write in their native Bashkir language. However, they wrote their works about their people, for their people, described their native nature: the Ural-Tau mountain, rivers and lakes, etc. One of these writers who wrote in Russian was Talkha Genatulin. The article examines the work of the famous Bashkir and Russian front-line writer Talkha Yumabaevich Genatullin (signed as Anatoly Genatulin) (1925–2019), whose 100th anniversary is celebrated today by the entire public, scientific, and literary communities of the Republic of Bashkortostan. Genatulin was one of the few Bashkir writers who wrote in Russian. However, he wrote about the Bashkirs; he glorified the heroism of the Bashkir warrior; he was inspired by the natural beauty of his small homeland and the spurs of the Ural Mountains. The purpose of the article is to reveal the artistic originality of Genatulin's work; to achieve this, the following tasks were solved: the review and analysis of the writer's works; identification of their artistic and aesthetic originality. The methods of study were analytical, literary methods of analysis. The research results seem promising and are a contribution to a comprehensive study of the work of the writer-warrior Genatulin. Because the study of the life and work of writers who went through the war has always been relevant and in demand in national literatures, and it remains so in Bashkir literature.

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