Yergaliyev (Yergali) Khamit ( October 14, 1916 , Novobogatinskoe village [1] - December 13, 1997 ) - Kazakh poet , people's writer of the Kazakh SSR ( 1986 ).
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| Date of Birth | October 1 (14) 1916 | ||||||
| Place of Birth | Novobogatinskoe village, now the village of Hamit Yergaliyev, Atyrau region , Kazakhstan | ||||||
| Date of death | December 13, 1997 (81 year) | ||||||
| Citizenship |  the USSR  Kazakhstan | ||||||
| Occupation | poet, writer, translator | ||||||
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Biography
Khamit Yergaliyev studied at KazSU in 1939-1941 .
Member of the Great Patriotic War . In July-October 1944, he served in the headquarters of the 6th Guards Cavalry Division on the 2nd Belorussian Front . Participated in the Belarusian operation . In November 1944 - January 1945 - the squadron commander of the 32nd Guards Cavalry Regiment of the 9th Guards Cavalry Division on the 2nd Ukrainian Front . Participated in the Budapest operation . On January 3, 1945, near the town of Levice (Slovakia), he was seriously wounded in the chest and sent to hospital [2] [3] .
In 1945 - 1950 Khamit Yergaliyev worked as a literary employee of the newspaper "Socialist Kazakhstan", in 1950 - 1957 - head of the poetry section of the Writers' Union of the Kazakh SSR , in 1958 - 1959 - head of the poetry section of Kazgoslititzdat. Since 1959, was on the creative work. [2]
Creativity
Khamit Yergaliyev is the author of more than 30 poetry books on various topics: the life of the Kazakhs before the October Revolution , the heroic work of the Soviet people in the rear during the war, post-war work and others. The poem “Confession of Fathers” ( 1947 ) tells about the struggle of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War and peaceful labor. In the poem “On the Long Road” ( 1949 ), he describes the images of the builders of the Mointy-Chu railway. In the poems “The Girl from Our Village” ( 1950 ), “Your River” ( 1953 ), the deeds of ordinary people are glorified, it is told about irrigation and gardening of desert lands. The poem “Yaik tunes” ( 1956 ) was dedicated to V.I. Chapaev and his associates. A number of works by Yergaliyev are devoted to cultural figures: “Akiz Ata” ( 1965 ) - to the Ukrainian poet T.G. Shevchenko , “Kurmangazy” ( 1962 ) - to the Kazakh akyn Kurmangazy Sagyrbayev , “Songs at the dawn” ( 1970 ) - to the Kazakh composer Ahmet Zhubanov. [2]
For the collection of poems and poems "Golden Cup" ( 1981 ), Hamit Yergaliyev was awarded the State Prize of the Kazakh SSR named after Abai ( 1982 ).
Khamit Yergaliyev is also the author of works in prose. In 1966 he published his collection of stories, art essays, journalism entitled "The Truth Sings." [2]
Yergaliyev was also a translator of foreign works into the Kazakh language. Among the translated works are works by G. G. Byron, N. A. Nekrasov, A. Navoi, Nizami , Sophocles , Nazim Hikmet , Pablo Neruda , W. Shakespeare , the Kyrgyz epic “ Manas ”, the Karakalpak epic “Forty Girls” and others. [2]
Awards and prizes
- 2 orders of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree (08/06/1946; 11.03.1985)
- 2 Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (01/03/1959; 10/18/1976)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (08.22.1986)
- Order of the Badge of Honor (10/26/1966)
- medals
- State Prize of the Kazakh SSR named after Abai (1982)
- People's Writer of the Kazakh SSR (1986)
Memory
The name Khamit Yergali is the embankment of the Vesnovka ( Esentai ) river in Almaty .
Notes
- ↑ Nowadays aul Hamit Yergaliyev of Isatai district of Atyrau region of Kazakhstan .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Kazakh SSR: a brief encyclopedia / Ch. ed. R.N. Nurgaliyev. - Alma-Ata: Ch. ed. Kazakh Soviet Encyclopedia, 1991. - Vol. 4: Language. Literature. Folklore. Art. Architecture. - pp. 226-227. - 31 300 copies - ISBN 5-89800-023-2 .
- ↑ People's feat Archived July 29, 2012.