Arsanov, Saidbey Arsanovich

Born in the family of a farm laborer in the village of Novye Atagi (now the Shali district of Chechnya ) on October 2, 1889. His sister is the heroine of Chechnya Fatima Arsanov . He graduated from a four-year school in Vladikavkaz . Then he studied at the Odessa Electrotechnical College, at the Polytechnic Institute in St. Petersburg . For participation in student unrest, he was expelled from the institute and sent to the Vyatka province . From there, he went to Germany , where he worked at a factory.

With the outbreak of World War I, Arsanov returned to Russia. He participated in the battles against the army of Kolchak . Since 1921 he worked in Chechnya. In 1925 he founded the first Chechen newspaper, Serlo . In 1930 he became the creator of the Grozny Association of Proletarian Writers. In 1925 - 1933 he held various posts in Chechnya, then became a representative of the Chechen Autonomous Region under the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the USSR. In 1936 - 1937 he headed the Chechen Research Institute.

In 1937, Arsanov was illegally convicted and exiled to Kolyma . After serving his term in 1945 , he settled in Alma-Ata , where his deported family lived. During his stay in Kazakhstan, Arsanov was repeatedly elected as a deputy of the Alma-Ata city and regional councils. In 1957 he returned to his homeland, where he headed the Writers' Union of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic . In 1959 he retired.

The first works of Arsanov were published in 1926 . His largest work was the historical novel “When Friendship Is Known”, published in 1956, which tells about the revolutionary struggle of the Chechen , Ingush and Russian peoples. The author worked on this novel for more than 30 years. Its first chapters began to be published back in the 1930s . The novel received a positive review by Alexander Fadeev :

Arsanov also wrote a number of essays and short stories, which were published in the collections “On Chechnya”, “Silvery Smile”, etc.

Artwork

• Hold your heart tight. (Chapters from the novel “Hold Your Heart Strong”) // Grozny Worker. 1930.22 May - 8 June.
• Aul and people (Chapters from the novel “Hold Your Heart Strong”) // Revolution and Highlander. 1930. No. 1. S. 70-78; No. 2. S. 63-69.
• For the bride, Earth to him (Chapters from the novel "Hold your heart tight"). “Revolution and Highlander”, 1930, No. 8, pp. 67-72.
• 905th year (Excerpt from the novel “Hold Your Heart Strong”) // Grozny Worker. 1935.22 - 29 Sep
• Violence in prison. Chapters from the novel “Hold Your Heart Strong” // Grozny Worker, 1935, October 2-6.
• Judgment (Excerpt from the novel "When Friendship is Known"). // Kinghiegaman Bayrakkh. 1956. May 17.
• When friendship is known (Excerpt from the novel of the same name) // Grozny Worker. 1957. Feb 26
• A word about mother (Excerpt from the novel “When Friendship is Known”) // Grozny Worker. 1960.17 Nov
• When friendship is known. Novel. Alma-Ata, 1956.
• When friendship is known. Book 1. Terrible, 1960 ..
• When friendship is known. Novel. Grozny, 1963.
• Onondi. Story // In the Far North. 1964. No. 2.
• Silver smile. Essays and stories. Grozny, 1965.
• About a faithful friend. Novel. M., 1968.
• About near and far. Stories and essays. Grozny, 1969.
• Favorites. When friendship is known. Novel. M., 2009.

• Adiz Kusaev . Writers of Chechnya. Terrible. State Unitary Enterprise “Book Publishing House”, 2005, 410 pp. Circulation 2000.
• Ravzan Yunusova. Life devoted to the development of literature and culture of the people. News of the republic. No. 204, October 16, 2009.P. 2.
• Yablokova G.I. Said-Bey Arsanov and his book // At the origins of the book. - Terrible: Book, 1990.

• Arsanov Saidbey Arsanbekovich - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
• Brief Encyclopedia of Literature
• Biography on the site "Chechnya free"