Kekilova, Annasoltan Seidovna

Born in the village of Keshi near Ashgabat. Graduated from Turkmen State University. After graduating from university, she worked for 2 years in high school, and also wrote children's poems. In the sixties, 3 books with her poems published under the editorship of the children's newspaper “Mudam Tayyar” were published. In the late sixties, she began to collaborate with a group of Moscow human rights defenders (including the Sakharov-Bonner group). She openly expressed critical views regarding the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan addressing the 24th Congress of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Subsequent dismissals from work, the cessation of the publication of the book and repeated calls to the KGB prompted Annasoltan to renounce USSR citizenship and seek political asylum at the British embassy. In 1971 she was arrested by the KGB, recognized as insane and placed in a mental hospital. 12 years, until her death on June 19, 1983, she spent in psychiatric clinics in the village of Koshi, Ashgabat, the village of Goyoktepe, Dashoguz, Moscow.

On August 26, 1971, Kekilova was forcibly admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Her mother, O. Seidova, applied to the Central Committee of the CPSU with a letter, reported that her daughter was absolutely healthy and had never been registered with psychiatrists. O. Seidova also applied to the international department of the Central Committee of the CPSU (a copy was sent to the chairman of the State Security Committee ANDROPOV) outlining the circumstances of the case. The statement said: “On August 26 of this year, an ambulance came to us that no one called and that no one needed. My daughter, completely healthy, forcibly twisting her arms, roughly throwing her young son aside, was put in the car and was taken to a mental hospital explaining that they had taken it for examination. Doctors in this mental hospital told her that she was healthy, but demanded a receipt that her critical statements to the Central Committee of the CPSU were just the result of a nervous exacerbation. Despite the threats to leave her within the walls of the hospital for life, Annasoltan refused to give such a receipt.

Niece of Aman Kekilova and Shali Kekilov

Most of the verses were lost after a fire in the house in which Annasoltan lived, including the Afghanistan cycle. The famous Turkmen director, Shikhmurad Annamuradov, made a film called “Omurzaya Yildizi” (“The Lonely Star” translated from Turkmen), which was dedicated to the life and work of Annasoltan.

• "Poppy field"

• Remembering Annasoltan
• Very cultured Turkmenistan. No new names, no old movies
• Russian-Turkmen Historical Dictionary
• Human Rights Movement in the Soviet Union
• / Annasoltan Kekilova