Khabibullin, Musagit Mudarisovich

Born December 25, 1927 was born in the village of Abdrakhmanovo, Orenburg Region. He graduated from elementary school there. Later he moved to the village of Novye Shalty (now Tatarstan). During the Great Patriotic War, mobilized in Magnitogorsk . He studied at the turner in the vocational school of Magnitogorsk. Then he studied at the metallurgical college for several years.

He began his career in 1946. He worked as a turner at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works , and later as a workshop foreman at a military plant in Oktyabrsk .

In 1953 he returned home and began to work as a mechanical engineer. From 1958 to 1966 he worked first as a driver, and then as a car mechanic at the Bavlyneft transport enterprise. At the same time he was a literary employee of the Bayrak regional newspaper. At the same time I was finishing evening school. After graduating from evening school, he entered the correspondence department of the Department of History and Philology of Kazan State University, specializing in Tatar language and literature. In 1971 he graduated from the university.

From 1966 to 1968 - head of the department of industry and transport of the Mayak newspaper in Aznakayev . From 1969 to 1971 he taught history at a secondary school in Tajikistan .

In 1971 he moved to Kazan, where for a long time he acted as executive secretary of the board of the Union of Writers of Tatarstan . From 1989 to 1999 he was the head of the prose department at the editorial office of the Miras magazine ^[1] .

He died after a serious and prolonged illness on January 4, 2019. He was buried at the Samosyrovsky cemetery of Kazan ^{[2] [3]} .

The first literary works of M. Khabibullin appeared in the 50s. In the 60s, his stories are printed in the republican periodical. ^[2] .

In 1968, stories were published in the collection People and Flowers. The following year, the magazine “Kazan Utlary” published the work “Unsigeenchez” (“The Eighteenth Spring”). In the same year he published his first book - At the Crossroads of Seven Roads. In 1973, after the release of the novel "Choңgyllar" ("Whirlpools"), he was recognized as an author.

Since 1970 he is a member of the Union of Writers of Tatarstan .

In the 1980s, he changed the subject of his works to historical. Thus, he tried to show the most important stages of the historical development of the Tatar people. In 1985, the novel Kurbat Khan was published, which is dedicated to the founder of the first Turkic - Bulgarian state on the territory of the Sea of ​​Azov and the Western Caucasus in the 7th century ^[1] .

• 1968 - stories in the collection "People and Flowers".
• 1969 - “At the crossroads of seven roads.”
• 1969 - Unsigezenchez (The Eighteenth Spring).
• 1973 - the novel "Choңgyllar" ("Whirlpools").
• 1974 - the story "Tau belnen tau ochrashmasa yes" ("The mountain does not converge with the mountain").
• 1977 - the story "Khuter Yarlary" ("Coast of memory").
• 1982 - the novel “Sular үrg aksa da” (“If the rivers flow back”).
• 1985 - the novel "Kubrat Khan".

• 1977 - Honored Worker of Culture of the TASSR.
• 1987 - Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR .
• 1997 - Honorary Academician of the Academy of Humanities of the Russian Federation.
• 2003 - People's writer of the Republic of Tatarstan.

• 1984 - literary prize of the Union of Russian Writers .
• 1996 - Kul Gali International Award (for success in restoring the centuries-old cultural heritage of the Tatar people).
• 2008 - State Prize of the Republic of Tatarstan named after Gabdulla Tukay (for the novel Kubrat Khan).