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Sadriddin Ayni

Born

in the village of Soktar, Bukhara Emirate, Russian Empire

April 27, 1878

Died

July 15, 1954

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Sadriddin Said-Murodzoda. He was an outstanding writer in Tajikistan. With his "March of Freedom", composed on the world-famous motif of the "Marseillaise" in 1918, the history of Soviet Tajik literature begins.

Sadriddin Aini was born in the village of Soktar, Gijduvan fog of the Bukhara Khanate (now Gizhduvan district: Bukhara region of the Uzbek SSR) into a dekhkan family. His father, a great lover of poetry, managed to plunge, into the soul of the future writer, who was just beginning to master reading and writing, a love of literature and knowledge. His mother came from the village of Mahalai Bolo, Shafirkan fog (now the Bukhara region of the Republic of Uzbekistan). In 1890, during a cholera epidemic, father and mother die almost simul Sadriddin Said-Murodzoda. He was an outstanding writer in Tajikistan. With his "March of Freedom", composed on the world-famous motif of the "Marseillaise" in 1918, the history of Soviet Tajik literature begins.

Sadriddin Aini was born in the village of Soktar, Gijduvan fog of the Bukhara Khanate (now Gizhduvan district: Bukhara region of the Uzbek SSR) into a dekhkan family. His father, a great lover of poetry, managed to plunge, into the soul of the future writer, who was just beginning to master reading and writing, a love of literature and knowledge. His mother came from the village of Mahalai Bolo, Shafirkan fog (now the Bukhara region of the Republic of Uzbekistan). In 1890, during a cholera epidemic, father and mother die almost simultaneously. Sadriddin leaves his native village in Bukhara (September 1890), and the madrasah, a religious institution traditional for Muslim countries, enters, as it were, combining high school and high school. While studying in a madrasah, he earns a living by washing, serving in rich houses, cleaning, student cells.
Aini was closely acquainted with prominent Bukhara intellectuals: Sadri Ziyo, Damullah Ikramcha and others.
Aini’s life was changed not by the Russian state as such, but by the Russian Jadids-Tatars, whose community arose both in Bukhara and in its railway station New Bukhara (Kagan ) Sadriddin Aini was a member of the Jadid Enlightenment movement. He embarks on the path of enlightenment - takes an active part in organizing the first new method schools for Tajik children in Bukhara, writes textbooks, poems, and stories for them, arguing in favor of secular knowledge as a counter to religious Muslim theology.
The persecution of the authorities forced S. Aini in 1915-1916. hiding outside Bukhara. He has been working as a weigher for about a year at a ginnery in Kizil Tepp. In April 1917, during a rampant reaction caused by the provocative Jadid manifestation in honor of the hefty reforms announced by the emir, S. Aini was punished with 75 stick strikes and thrown into prison. Together with other political prisoners, he was released from prison by Russian revolutionary soldiers, and after almost two months of treatment at the hospital in Kagan, he moved permanently to Samarkand. In 1918, the emir of revenge executed his younger brother S. Aini.
Since 1918, he unequivocally sided with the opponents of the emir regime, and together with the left wing of the Jadids of Young Bukhara he drifted towards the Bolsheviks. In 1920, he supported the revolution in the emirate and the creation of the Bukhara people's Soviet republic.
On June 15, 1926, Aini became a literary employee of the Tajik State Publishing House, an office opened in Samarkand. There were no other literary employees in it then.
Some time after the creation of the Bukhara People’s Republic, he was elected a member of the CEC of the republic, and after the creation of the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, he worked for several years in the Tajik office in Samarkand, in the Samarkand branch of the Tajik state publishing house. With the creation of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic in 1929, he was elected a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Tajik SSR.
In 1934, at the I All-Union Congress of Writers, he was also elected a member of the Board of the Union of Writers of the USSR.
S. Aini was repeatedly elected deputy of the Dushanbe and Samarkand city councils, twice (1937, 1947) as a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Tajik SSR.
In 1940, S. Aini was awarded the title of Honored Scientist of the Tajik SSR for great services in the field of literary studies. In 1943, he was elected an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, and later he was awarded the title of Honored Scientist of the Uzbek SSR. In 1949, the Academic Council of Leningrad State University. ...more

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	Марги Судхур 3.93 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1956 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Мактаби Кӯҳна 4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1935 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sands of Oxus: Boyhood Reminiscences of Sadriddin Aini (Bibliotheca Iranica: Literature Series) by Sadriddin Ayni, John R. Perry (Translator), Rachel Lehr (Translator) 4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Бухара by Sadriddin Ayni, Садриддин Айни, Sergei Borodin (Translator) 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1954 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	صفحات عن حياتي & طلقة في الجبال by Sadriddin Ayni, صدر الدين عيني, Mukhtar Auezov 3.39 avg rating — 18 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Одина by Sadriddin Ayni, Садриддин Айни 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Have to Trust Your Heart by Sadriddin Ayni, Mykhailo Stelmakh, Berdi Kerbabayev 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Рабы 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1975 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Дохунда by Sadriddin Ayni, Садриддин Айни 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ятим by Sadriddin Ayni, Садриддин Айни 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1983	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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