Adgamova, Sarvar Sabirovna

Born in the city of Troitsk (now the Chelyabinsk region ) in the family of the mullah of the 1st Cathedral Mosque Sabirzhan Adgamov (1862-1909) ^[1] . In 1914 she graduated from the Russian Alexander School for Girls, studied for 2 years in a private Tatar teacher’s school, and in 1917 she entered the Darelmegalllimat Grammar School (graduated in 1919) and taught at the same time. In 1920-1923 studied at the medical faculty of Tomsk University , while working at the school and orphanage as an educator for children taken out of the starving areas of the Kazan province .

In 1923, Sarvar accompanied children returning to Kazan , where she remained for permanent residence, and in 1924 she married Kavi Najmi , who later became a famous writer and even headed the republican writers' organization. In 1927, a son was born to them, who was given the name Tansyk. At the end of law courses (1929-1931), she worked as a legal adviser at the Central House of the Peasant at the Faculty of Soviet Construction and Law of Kazan University ^[1] . Since 1932 , after several of her translations of the works of Soviet writers were published, Adgamova became a literary translator on a professional basis.

In the second half of the 1930s, she and her husband were repressed as a "nationalist": on January 4, 1938, she was arrested and six months later, on August 11, she was sentenced to 10 years of camps and 5 years of loss of rights. She was transferred to Siblag , but in the autumn of 1940 by the decision of the Supreme Court of the USSR she was completely acquitted and released. Kavi Najmi , arrested on July 2, 1937, was convicted on March 19, 1939 under articles 58-2, 58-10, part 1, 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR for “counter-revolutionary activities on the literary front”, but was then acquitted and released at the end 1940, a year earlier than his wife, who returned to her family, in Kazan only on the eve of the new 1941 . During World War II, she was engaged in translations of journalistic articles and essays on the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

She died in 1978 in Kazan.

In the early 1920s, while studying and working in Tomsk , Sarvar Adgamova wrote her first work for children - the play “A Picture from Rural Life ”. It began to print in 1924 . The author of the play “Be Ready!” (1934), books of short stories for children “Friends” ( Tat. Duslar , 1948, Russian translation. 1959), “My Sisters” ( Tat. Minem Apalar , 1953), “Tubalbash” (1958 ), poems, as well as memoirs of figures of Tatar literature: Sh. M. Babich , Musa Jalil , G. Ibragimov , Sh. Kamal , and others.

In 1930, her first professional experience of literary translation into the Tatar language was published - a translation of the novel “The Wasterers” by Valentin Kataev . Then she translated the works of Pavel Bazhov , Wanda Vasilevskaya , M. Gorky , Peter Pavlenko , Mikhail Prishvin , Alexander Pushkin , Leo Tolstoy , Anton Chekhov and others, as well as Daniel Defoe ( Robinson Crusoe ), Jonathan Swift (Gulliver in the Land of the Lilliputians "), The tales of the Brothers Grimm (" Tales "). Translated from the Kazakh language into the Tatar novel of Mukhtar Auezov " Abai " ^[1] .

• Nezhmetdenov, Tansyk. All about my mother // Republic of Tatarstan : newspaper. - 2001. - October 10 ( No. 202-203 ).