Bikchentaev, Anver Gadeevich

Born on October 4 (September 21, old style) 1913 in Ufa. In 1921, the family moved to Orenburg ^[1] . In 1928-1931 he studied in Orenburg at a pedagogical college. After his graduation, he was sent to work among the Tatar population of Arkhangelsk . In 1931–32 - head teacher of the Tatar school. Then he became interested in aviation, interplanetary travel. Passion led Bikchentaev to the Moscow Aviation Institute . After some time, he left the institute and went to the Far East. He taught in the village of New Ufa of the Mazanovsky district, created Komsomol organizations there.

Parents of Anver Bikchentaev loved and were fond of literature so that it became a habit to know all the verses of Gabdulla Tukay and buy every book of Mazhit Gafuri. This had a significant impact on Anver.

In 1933 he returned to Ufa and began working in the republican newspaper Kommuna. ^[one]

In 1935-1936 he served in the Red Army . After demobilization, he returned to journalism, worked for 30 years as a literary officer in the newspapers Young Communard, Vodnik Bashkiria, Shveynik Bashkiria, Kyzyl Tan , Sovetskaya Bashkiria , and in the military press.

Bashkir journalists A. G. Bikchentaev, K. Murtazin, G. Kh. Fazlyev were enlisted as executive secretaries of the Komsomol bureau regiments. Soon Bikchentaev became an assistant to the chief of the political department of the Komsomol division .

- Vasilevsky A.A. 21st Guards . - S. 10.

After the start of World War II, from the post of deputy editor of the newspaper Leninets, he volunteered for the front, removed the detachment from the circle ^[1] ; graduated from commissars and served on various fronts. Anver Bikchentaev served as an assistant to the head of the political department for the Komsomol of the 21st Guards Division with the rank of guard of the political instructor . He worked as a war correspondent for the newspaper of the 27th Army and the 2nd Ukrainian Front . He participated in the battles on the Kursk Bulge , in the battles for the Carpathians and the Danube, in the liberation of Hungary and the capture of Vienna .

In 1942 he was admitted to the CPSU .

For the military merits of the guard, Major A. Bikchentaev was awarded the orders of the Red Banner of War (1942), the Red Star (1943), World War I degree (1985), World War II degree (1944), and military medals.

In the post-war years (1945-1947) he worked as a literary employee of the newspaper Sovetskaya Bashkiria, and since 1947 he has been engaged only in literary work.

In 1954-1956, A. Bikchentaev studied at the higher literary courses at the Union of Writers of the USSR and at the same time graduated from the correspondence department of the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky .

For several years he worked as a member of the editorial board of the literary weekly “Literary Russia”, the magazine “ Heneck ” (“Forks”), was a member of the editorial board of the magazine “Pioneer” (Ufa), “Bashkortostan kyzy” (“Daughter of Bashkortostan”).

For achievements in the development of literature and art, he was awarded the Order of the October Revolution (1972) and the Order of the Badge of Honor . He was awarded the Komsomol Prize named after G. Salam . A. Bikchentaev took an active part in the public life of the republic. For many years he was a member of the board and party bureau of the Union of Writers of Bashkiria and a member of the board of the Union of Writers of the RSFSR . Laureate of the Republican Prize named after Salavat Yulaev (1974) for the novels “Swans Remain in the Urals,” “I Do Not Promise You Paradise,” published in 1973 by the Soviet Writer Publishing House, and the story Goodbye Silvery Rains, published in 1973 by the Central Committee Publishing House Komsomol " Young Guard ".

He died on May 18, 1989 in Ufa. He was buried in the Muslim cemetery .

The first story, "Letter to London," was published on January 20, 1934 in the newspaper Commune ^[1] . After that, a number of essays and notes were published.

In 1944, his first book, Red Poppies, was published, after which he wrote two novels, six novels, and many stories and film scripts. A prominent place among them is occupied by works for children.

• Big orchestra. Story. (1957)
• Ambassador's daughter. Story.
• Girl in bloomers. Stories.
• Little adjutant. Story.
• Adjutants do not die. Story. (1963)
• I do not promise you paradise. Novel. (1965)
• Boys from the coast. Story.
• Red poppies. Stories. (1943)
• Claudia Abramova
• How old are you, Commissioner? Story. (1966)
• Goodbye, silvery rains. The Tale. (1973)
• Short stories about the Russian soldier. (1946)
• Waves of Karaidel. Stories.
• The eagle dies on the fly. Story. (1965), revised; in the first edition called The Right to Immortality. (1950)
• Swans remain in the Urals (Path to Karasai). (1956)
• Seven Atamans and One Judge (1980)
• A scream spring. Novel. (1981)

• Order of the Red Banner (1942)
• Order of the Red Star (1943) ^[2]
• Order of the Patriotic War I degree (1985)
• Order of the Patriotic War II degree (1945) ^[3]
• Order of the October Revolution (1972)
• Order of the Badge of Honor (1963)
• Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR (1970)
• Laureate of the Republican Prize named after Salavat Yulaev (1974)
• Laureate named after G. Salam (1967)

digitized works in the Akhmet-Zaki Validi National Library of the Republic of Bashkortostan

• in Bashkir language
• in Russian

other sources

• Works of A. Bikchentaev in Russian
• An article in the Bashkir Encyclopedia (Bashk.)