Writers Union of Kazakhstan

The structure of the Writers' Union includes creative sections on Kazakh , Russian , Uyghur (since 1932), German and Korean (since 1977) literature.

The regional structure includes five interregional branches in Karaganda , Semipalatinsk , Uralsk , Astana , Chimkent .

The Board of the Union of Writers is located at: Union of Writers of Kazakhstan, 105 Ablai Khan Avenue, Almaty, Kazakhstan ^[2] .

List of periodicals of the Writers' Union ^[2] :

• newspaper "қазақ әдебиетi"
• magazines " Zhuldyz "
• " Expanse "

The main events in the Kazakh literature of the Soviet period ^[1] :

• In 1923, the poet Magzhan Zhumabaev was sent from the Turkestan Republic to Moscow to the Higher Literary and Art Institute of V. Bryusov , where he got acquainted with the activities of writers' associations and, in particular, the Union of Poets. And he was planning to create a literary association of Kazakh writers, which he called "Alқa" ("College") and wrote the organization’s program. She was sent by mail to familiarize writers living in different cities, and found supporters. The Alka program was approved in correspondence, but was not accepted because there was no meeting. Alka organizationally remained unformed. This intention to create a literary association was recognized as a sign of nationalism , an attempt by the Alashordians to reanimate and harm the Soviet system. An independent literary association was banned by the NKVD .
• In 1925, the official Association of Proletarian Writers of Kazakhstan was created in the republic.
• 1928 - the creation of the journal “Zhana Udebiet” (New Literature), subsequently renamed “ Zhuldyz ”.
• In the years 1928-1930, almost all the writers of the old formation, all potential members of Alka — Akhmet Baitursynov , Mirzhakip Dulatov , Zhusipbek Aymauytov , Magzhan Zhumabaev , Mukhtar Auezov , Koshke Kemengerov and others, were persecuted and repressed.
• 1933 - the Prostor magazine began to be published, which became the printed organ of the SEC.
• On June 12, 1934, three months before the opening of the first congress of writers of the USSR, the First Congress of Writers of the Autonomous Kazakh Republic (which was part of the Russian Federation at that time) was held, which united all reliable writers into the Union of Soviet Writers of Kazakhstan . The opening speech was made by the founder of the Union Saken Seyfullin (in 1938 he was arrested as a "bourgeois nationalist" and shot on February 28 in the dungeons of the Alma-Ata NKVD). Ilyas Dzhansugurov was elected the first chairman (repressed and executed in 1937 ).
• 1939 - The Second Congress of Writers of Kazakhstan.
• 1951 year. In general, it should be noted that in the post-war period unreasonable repressions against prominent figures of culture and science of Kazakhstan did not stop. The historians E. Bekmakhanov and B. Suleimenov were arrested and sentenced to long term prisoners. The philologists E. Ismailov and K. Mukhamedkhanov were also arrested, the latter for “nationalist mistakes” in studying the Abai literary school ... ”Former Kazakhstan leader D. Kunaev emphasizes that Zh. Shayakhmetov made“ ... major mistakes in relation to to the best representatives of the national intelligentsia. These mistakes were especially aggravated and became grave in 1951-1954, when M. Suzhikov worked as Secretary of the Central Committee for ideology. For example, the pogrom decisions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan on the so-called anti-people the best examples of the epic, the related scientific works of many scientists, historians, philologists and entire scientific groups. The best works of fiction were subjected to defeat, such as, for example, M. Auezov’s novel about Abai in the editorial article “Kazakhstan Pravda” in June 1953. At the same time, along with heavy accusations in the press, at the public meetings, arrests of famous figures listed above followed ... "
• In 1954 (fifteen years after the Second Congress), the next, third congress of writers of the republic took place; after the war, the ranks of the Writers' Union began to replenish rapidly, writers aimed at a new heroic of the Soviet people - the rise of virgin lands .
• In 1975, Moscow banned the literary book of a member of the SEC Olzhas Suleimenov "Asia", dedicated to the " Word of Igor's Campaign ", for pan-Turkism, the author has not been published for eight years.
• In 1986, repression reappeared. Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov was persecuted and criticized by the party apparatus of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan for his poem, “Language Forgotten From My Childhood,” published in the journal Prostor, in which the poet revealed the perniciousness of the national politics of the ideological apparatus of that period. As a result of this persecution ( E. Ligachev , Yu. Sklyarov , G. Kolbin ), the verses of B. Kanapyanov were unofficially forbidden and only with the advent of U. Zhanibekov (1988) did the poet’s works appear in print. In the days of Zheltoksan, in solidarity with the poet, Bakhyt Kenzheev read B. Kanapyanov’s poems on the Voice of America radio.
• During the Perestroika years, on the initiative of the Writers' Union, the people's movements Nevada were born - Semipalatinsk for the ban on nuclear tests at the Semipalatinsk test site led by Olzhas Suleimenov and the Movement for the Salvation of the Drying Aral , led by Mukhtar Shakhanov . But these were the last significant political outbursts from members of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan.

In 1945, the Council of People's Commissars of the Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic adopted a decree on the construction in 1946 in Almaty of the "House of Writers named after Dzhambul. The architect Sumarokov developed the project, but the building was never built. ^[3]

The building, located at ul. Abylay Khan 105, began to build to accommodate the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kazakh SSR. It was designed by architects A. A. Leppik and A. F. Ivanov.

In 1972, according to the project of the architect I.V. Scheveleva, a conference hall and the Kalamger cafe were added to the building. The reconstruction was associated with the holding of a conference of writers from Asia and Africa in Almaty. ^[four]

Architecture

The building of the Writers' Union was built in the stylistic characteristics of classicism and became an important city-forming object of the city of Alma-Ata of that period. It is an example of civil and social Soviet architecture. The architectural and planning composition of the three-story, rectangular building plan is central axial. The main entrance is located in the ledge of the central risalit. At the ends of the building side entrances are arranged, decorated similarly to the main one. The composition of the facade is based on a horizontal ribbon of window openings, contrasted with the vertical rhythm of the pilasters of the composite order in the window panes and at the corners of the building. ^[5]

Monument Status

On November 10, 2010, the new State List of Monuments of History and Culture of Local Significance of the city of Almaty was approved, at the same time all previous decisions on this subject were invalidated ^[6] . In this Decree, the status of the monument of local importance of the building of the Union of Writers was retained. The boundaries of protected areas were approved in 2014 ^[7] .

• Category: Members of the Writers Union of Kazakhstan