The short but bright life of Galim Salam became an example of selfless service to the homeland. Literary names of the region Galimov salam biography in Bashkir language

Salam Galimov(present Galimov Salyam Galimovich; January 18, 1911, the village of Taskino, Ekaterinburg district, Perm province, now the village of B. Taskino, Sosnovsky district, Chelyabsk region, - July 19, 1939, Leningrad), poet. Graduated from Bashkir pedagogical institute them. K.A.Timiryazev (1937). Since 1928, teacher in schools of the Argayash canton, in 1930-33 employee. gas. "Bashkurdistan" (see "Bashkortostan"), in 1937-38 he worked in Bash. Research Institute of Language and Literature (Ufa). First Sat. poems “Anxiety” was published in 1932. S.’s poetry is characterized by high civic pathos, a combination of passionate journalism and deep lyricism, genre and thematic. variety, intonation-rhythm. expressiveness. In verse. “Republic irtaһe” (“Morning of the Republic”), the poems “As yyr” (1935; “Three Songs”), “Shonkar” (1936; “Gyrfalcon”), “Bala” (1939; “Child”) and others are comprehended the greatness of modern times poet of the era, reveal it character traits, the relationship between the individual and the people, the Motherland. The ballads “Kyҙyl bouquet” (“Red bouquet”), “Һүҙҙәr һәm eshtər” (“Words and deeds”), “Signor һәm balaly katyn” (“Signor and woman with a child”) and others are pacifist in nature. In satirical and humorous. poem. “Trains bulgan vakhiga” (“An Incident on the Train”), “Krәҫtiәn suby” (“Peasant Soup”), “Beҙ ҡasandyr yaҡyn duҫtar inek” (“We were once close friends”) expose philistinism, ignorance, and backwardness. Peru S. belongs to the prince. for children “Ni өson besay ҙur bәlәgә ҡapty” (1941; in Russian translation “Why did the cat get into trouble?”, 1969), journalistic. articles dedicated to industrialization and the creation of a new life. Prod. S. translated into Russian. and Tat. languages. Transferred to bash. language poem by A.S. Pushkin “Gypsies”, verse. M.A. Svetlova “Grenada” and others. S.’s play “Salauat” (1938; “Salavat”, jointly with B. Bikbay) was staged at the Bashkir Drama Theater. Based on the poems of the poet A.K. Kukubaev, he created the oratorio “Morning of the Republic” (1989). S. recorded versions of the epics “Babsak menen Kusyak”, “Kuzyikurpyas menen Mayankhylu”, “Kungyr-buga” and other works. bash. folklore Author-comp. book “Bashҡort council khalyҡ yyrҙary” (1939; “Bashkir Soviet folk songs”). Delegate to the 1st Congress of the Soviets. writers of Bashkiria (Ufa, 1934). Streets in his native village, Ufa, are named after S. Bash. region The Komsomol committee established a prize named after him in 1967 (awarded until 1990).

Salam Galimovich Galimov(pseud. Salam G., bashk. Slm alim uly limov, 1911-1939) - Bashkir poet and publicist.

Biography

Galimov Salyam was born on January 18, 1911 in the village of Tyagishevo, Chelyabinsk district, Orenburg province (now Sosnovsky district Chelyabinsk region).

In 1928-1930 worked as a teacher at the Argayash school in the Chelyabinsk region.

In 1930-1932 was a literary employee of the newspaper “Kyzyl Bashkortostan” (now “Bashkortostan”).

In 1937 he graduated from the Bashkir State Pedagogical Institute named after K. A. Timiryazev.

In 1937-1938 - Researcher at the Bashkir Research Institute of Language and Literature. In 1938, he recorded one of the versions of the epic “Kuzykurpyas and Mayankhylu” from the words of his mother Ummugulsum Galimova.

In 1938, he was sent to graduate school at the Leningrad branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where he became seriously ill. Died on June 19, 1939 in Leningrad.

Creation

Began publishing in 1929. In 1932, the first collection of poems, Anxiety, was published. G. Salam was one of the first among Bashkir writers to turn to the ballad genre (“Verification”, “The Lieutenant is 21”, “Red Bouquet”, “Samurai and His Master”, “Words and Deeds”, “The Signor and the Woman with the Child”, "The Silent Soldier")

The poem “Three Songs” (“with yyr”) was written in 1935, “Shunkar” (“Shoar”) in 1936, and “Child” (“Bala”) in 1939. In the poem “Morning of the Republic” (“Republic of Irthe”, 1935) he created a lyrical portrait of Bashkortostan. In the epic work “Through the Years,” written in 1938, G. Salam predicts the future of the country and people.

Translated into Bashkir the works of A. S. Pushkin (“Gypsies”, “The Tale of the Golden Cockerel”), M. A. Svetlov (“Grenada”), M. Ilyin “What Time Is It? Stories about time”, etc.

Bibliography

Anxiety. Poem and verses. Ufa, Bashgiz. 1932. 90 p.
After the alarm. Ufa, Bashgosizdat, 1934. 64 p.
Shunkar. Poem. Ufa, Bashgiz, 1936. 35 p.
Love. Ufa, Bashgosizdat, 1937. 125 p.
Red bouquet. For children. Ufa, Bashgosizdat, 1939. 16 p.
Child. Poem. Ufa, Bashgosizdat, 1940. 72 p.
How the cat got into big trouble. For children. Ufa, Bashgosizdat, 1941. 42 p.
Monument. Poetry. Kazan, Tatgosizdat, 1941. 110 p. (in Tatar language)
Selected works. Poems and poems. Ufa, Bashknigoizdat, 1945. 191 p.
Selected works. Preface by Z. Sharkey. Ufa, Bashknigoizdat, 1953. 190 p.
Red bouquet. Poem for children. Ufa, Bashknigoizdat, 1958. 16 p.
Selected works. Preface by K. Akhmedyanov. Ufa, Bashknigoizdat, 1962. 637 p.
Selected lyrics. Preface by M. Lukonin. Ufa, Bashknigoizdat, 1968. 47 p. (in Russian)
Why was the cat in trouble? Poetry. Ufa, Bashknigoizdat, 1969. 14 p. (in Russian); Ufa, Bashknigoizdat, 1971, 14 p.

Translations into Bashkir language

Ilyin M. What time is it? Stories about time. Ufa, Bashgiz, 1935. 146 p.
Pushkin A.S. The Tale of the Golden Cockerel. Ufa, Bashgosizdat, 1939. 12 p. ; 1955. 16 p.

Memory

In the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic there was a prize for best works literature and art named after G. Salyam.

This year marks the 105th anniversary of the birth of the innovative poet, reformer of Bashkir poetry Salyam Galimov.

Unfortunately, fate gave him only 28 years of life. His poems were not destined to become the lyrics of a wise philosopher, but Salam’s poetry forever preserved a fresh, unclouded view of the world.

Salam Galimovich Galimov was born in 1911 in the village of Tagesh (now Taskino) in the family of a designated mullah. By the age of 13, Salam had already graduated from first-level school in the village of Sarino. Then the parents sent the teenager to study in Argayash for four years. Perhaps, it was here that Salam’s love for his native word first manifested itself. He takes an active part in editing the school newspaper and magazines, where his poems and notes appear. After graduating from school in the 1928-1930s, the future poet worked as a teacher in the villages of Ibragimovo, Kunashak district, and Ralikeevo, near Argayash, was a Komsomol leader, an active rural correspondent, and participated in the organization of the first collective farms. Biographers note that it was during these years that notes and the first poems of Salam appeared in republican newspapers. In 1930, a nineteen-year-old boy was invited to work at the editorial office of the Bashkortostan newspaper. The desire to receive a systematic literary education leads Salyam Galimov to the literary department of the Bashkir Pedagogical Institute. It is during his studies at the university that the poet’s literary gift is most clearly and fully revealed. During these years, such poems as “Moscow”, “Three Songs”, “Morning of the Republic”, “Monument” and the famous poem “Falcon” were created. He signs his creations with the pseudonym G. Salam.

In 1932, the first book of poems entitled “Anxiety” was published. Salam becomes one of the first reformers of Bashkir verse. He conducted a continuous search in the field of intonation and rhythmic possibilities of national poetry. The expansion of the rhythm of the intonation sound of poetry, the introduction of a system of compound rhymes - a synthesis of various traditions - constituted G. Salam's innovation in the poetry of that time.

In 1937, he worked as a researcher at the Bashkir Research Institute of Language and Literature. In 1938, G. Salam went to graduate school at the Leningrad branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Here he became seriously ill with meningitis and died on June 19, 1939. It is still not entirely clear how and why the biography that began so brightly ended so absurdly at the very takeoff. What was the cause of the serious illness that crippled him in the midst of the white Leningrad nights? Was a cure possible? Who was with the young poet in last days his short life? We will never know about this.

In ten years literary activity a gifted young man from a small Ural village managed to create four poems, about sixty verses and publish dozens of essays and feuilletons. G. Salam’s major poetic work “We need a song, a song about a hero” became relevant for its time. In the context of strengthening tendencies of vulgar sociologism in the 30s, the glorification in literature of shock construction projects, oil rigs, and factory chimneys, the poet first sounded the alarm about the moral essence of man.

High citizenship and genre originality were clearly manifested in the poems: “Morning of the Republic”, “Monument”, “We laugh more cheerfully than the most cheerful” and others. His epic poems “Falcon”, “Child”, “Life” are characterized by deep psychologism, the use of short story techniques, and the strengthening of the role of auxiliary images, poetic details, and expressive possibilities. G. Salam was one of the first to turn to the ballad genre. His ballads “Verification”, “Words and Deeds”, “Silent Soldier” and others warn of impending danger, future imperialist aggression. They are based on a conventional plot, often representing witty finds, which indicates the rise in the culture of Bashkir poetry. At the end of the 30s, G. Salam created a wide epic canvas “Through the Years”, in which he glorifies high humanistic ideals and predicts a bright future for the country and people. The evolution of his work is determined by the transition from declarativeness to philosophical depth, from instructions, moralization - to imagery, from rhetoric - to true lyricism. He was also involved in translations, translated into the Bashkir language the poems “Gypsies” by A.S. Pushkin, “Grenada” by M. A. Svetlova. He had a special love for the genre of the poem, which was quite new for that time, and his fame as a poet was much wider than that of another famous poet of that time - Mukhamedyarov Khai. But this did not interfere with their mutual love and friendship.

His poem was read to the gills, procrastinated by both young and old, it was studied in schools, universities and technical colleges. It became not only a literary, but also a socio-political event.

In Leningrad, Salyam Galimov studied in graduate school and, it should be said, very successfully, which surprised his comrades a lot. They were amazed at the hard work, the ability to harmoniously combine scientific work with literary. The poem “Bala” (“Child”), which he created precisely in Leningrad, was considered a new word in general Soviet literature. There have been attempts to translate it into Russian. He was asked to do interlinear translations in order to publish the collection in Russian, but he was so absorbed in scientific work that he never managed to find the time for this. Meanwhile, such a rare and insidious disease continued to develop steadily until it brought him to the grave.

In Ufa, for some time G.Salyam lived in the famous house No. 2 on Lenin Street, which was then called the House of Specialists. Today there is a memorial plaque on the house.

The administration and residents of the Sosnovsky district remember and honor the classic and innovative poet of Bashkir literature Galimov Salyam Galimovich.

In the 90s of the 20th century, in the poet’s homeland in the village of Taskino (formerly Tagesh), Sosnovsky district, a memorial plaque was installed on the house where the poet was born and lived. This initiative belongs to the participants of the Kurultay of Bashkirs of the Sosnovsky district, chaired by Arslan Bikbulatov.

In 2011, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the birth of G. Salam, the Sosnovsky Administration municipal district established a regional literary prize named after him. This award has several goals: propaganda and popularization of the name and work of the poet, encouragement of the creative activity of young authors, revival, preservation and strengthening of spiritual and moral traditions, nurturing a sense of friendship between peoples.

Despite the difficult economic situation, the prize has been awarded annually for the past 5 years. In 2016, the prize will be awarded for the sixth time.

In 2011, an Interregional creative conference was held dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of G. Salam, which was held in the Sosnovsky district. The conference was prepared by the regional literary association named after Akmulla under the leadership of Kamsa Murtazin together with the regional literary association “U Kamina” and the Central Library of the Sosnovsky district.

The regional museum presents a permanent exhibition dedicated to the life and work of G. Salam “I will walk ten more lives and hundreds of roads with my Muse!” All visitors to the museum can get acquainted with the biography of the famous poet and his poetic creations.

Workers of the Central Regional Library are doing a lot of work to promote the work of the classic of Bashkir literature. In 2016, for the 105th anniversary of the poet, together with the literary association “U Kamina”, it is planned to release a book dedicated to the life and work of G. Salam. The book will also include materials about the laureates of the G. Salam literary prize. Currently, the exhibition “The Poet’s Star Will Not Go Out” has been prepared for the poet’s anniversary in the Central Library.

The district literary association “U Kamina” has been working closely and fruitfully with the district newspaper “Sosnovskaya Niva” for almost 20 years. Poetic pages and articles about the literary life of the Sosnovsky district are periodically published on the pages of the publication.

The idea of a trip to the poet’s grave in St. Petersburg has long arisen. We know that the young and talented poet is buried at the Volkovskoye cemetery next to the graves of Ivan Turgenev, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Alexander Kuprin. The district kurultai (congress) of Bashkirs of the Sosnovsky district supports this initiative and promises to help organize the trip.

Dear readers, we invite you to feel the poetic talent, the power of love of life, patriotism and love for your Motherland, which permeate the poems of the innovative poet, classic of Bashkir literature Galimov Salyam.

Ural Kulushev,

head of the district literary association"At the Fireplace", member of the Writers' Union of the Republic of Bashkortostan

The work of Galim Salam constitutes one of the brightest pages of Bashkir literature of the twentieth century.

He entered the history of the literary life of the Bashkir people as an innovative poet, intensely searching for new poetic forms, as a lyric poet, whose piercing lines excite the heart decades later. His lyrics can be considered an example of innovation in Bashkir poetry.

January 18, 2016 marks the 105th anniversary of the birth of one of the prominent innovative poets, active reformers of Bashkir poetry, Salyam Galimov. Unfortunately, life gave him a little more than a quarter of this term. His poems were not destined to become the lyrics of a wise philosopher. But Salam’s poetry forever retained a fresh, unclouded view of the world, because he lived in the world for only 28 years and left his contemporaries at the age of Gabdulla Tukay and Mikhail Lermontov, without having time to say very much.

Salyam Galimovich Galimov was born on January 18, 1911 in the ancient Bashkir village of Tyagesh (Taskino) in the Kunashak district of the Chelyabinsk region in the family of a designated mullah. At the age of 10 he lost his father, after which he worked as a farm laborer for wealthy Bashkir bais.

Salam was raised by his mother and grandmother. His grandmother had a particularly great influence on the young poet. She remembered and told her grandson many Bashkir fairy tales, proverbs and sayings, folk quatrains - baits and lullabies. By the age of 13, Salam had already graduated from first-level school in the Bashkir village of Sary. Then the parents sent the teenager to study in Argayash for four years, where in 1928 he graduated with good grades in all subjects high school. At the age of 14, while studying at the Argayash 2nd level school, he joined the Komsomol.

Perhaps, it was here that Salam’s love for his native word first manifested itself. He takes an active part in editing the school newspaper, where his poems and notes appear. In high school, Salam edits the school literary magazine.

In 1928 he graduated from school, worked as a teacher, headed Komsomol cells in the villages of Ibragimovo and Galikeevo, and actively participated in the organization of the first collective farms.

Then G.Salyam taught the Bashkir language in schools in the Argayash region for 2 years. As a teacher, he was especially distinguished by the fact that he could arouse genuine interest in his students in his subject, literature. I did everything possible to develop their aesthetic taste. The famous Bashkir poetess Katiba Kinyabulatova recalled what a gifted teacher Galim Salyam was: “His lessons left a deep impression, because he taught literature with passion and interest. Walking around the class, he enthusiastically talked about the work of this or that poet and cited poetic quotes from him by heart. And the students listened to him with bated breath.” Began publishing in 1929. He worked as a village correspondent, publishing notes in the republican Komsomol newspaper “Bashkortostan Yeshtere” (“Youth of Bashkortostan”) and “Kyzyl Bashkortostan”. In the spring of 1930, Salyam Galimov was invited to the editorial office of the newspaper “Kyzyl Bashkortostan”, he became a literary employee of the agricultural department and at the same time edited the supplement to the newspaper - the magazine “Tractor”.

The desire to receive a systematic literary education leads Salyam Galimov to the literary faculty of the Bashkir State Pedagogical Institute them. Timiryazev. It is during his studies at the university that the poet’s literary gift is most clearly and fully revealed. During these years, such poems as “Moscow”, “Three Songs”, “Morning of the Republic”, “Monument” and the famous poem “Falcon” were created. He signs his creations with the pseudonym G. Salam.

His ideological and artistic interests were broad and versatile. There is no area of contemporary reality that he would not touch upon in his works. He is fascinated by questions socialist industrialization and technical progress, collectivization Agriculture, friendship of peoples, participation of women in society.

It is still not entirely clear how and why the biography that began so brightly ended so absurdly at the very takeoff. What was the cause of the serious illness that crippled him in the midst of the white Leningrad nights? Was a cure possible? Who was with the young poet in the last days of his short life? We will never know about this. Salam was buried at the Volkovsky cemetery in Leningrad next to the graves of Ivan Turgenev, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin and Alexander Kuprin. Over ten years of literary activity, a gifted young man from a small Ural village managed to create four poems, about sixty verses and publish dozens of essays and feuilletons.

G. Salam’s major poetic work “We need a song, a song about a hero” became relevant for its time. In the context of the strengthening trends of sociology in the 30s, the glorification in literature of shock construction projects, oil rigs, and factory chimneys, the poet first sounded the alarm about the moral essence of man.

High citizenship and genre originality were clearly manifested in the ode-verses “Morning of the Republic”, “Monument”, “We laugh more cheerfully than the most cheerful” and others. His epic poems “Falcon”, “Child”, “Life” are characterized by deep psychologism, the use of short story techniques, and the strengthening of the role of auxiliary images, poetic details, and expressive possibilities.

Clarity of thought, simplicity of presentation, melody and smoothness of verse - these are the main things that G. Salam worked tirelessly on, finishing and polishing every word, every line, bringing them to perfection. Laconism, the ability to say a lot with a minimum expenditure of words - characteristic properties the poetry of G. Salam, who strived for accuracy, brevity, and aphorism. The language of G. Salam's poetry is living, folk. He knew many parables, kubairs and could tell them masterfully. In his notebook, which he never parted with, pearls of poetry and classic Bashkir baits were written in calligraphic handwriting. He constantly searched for and found new poetic forms; he could work for hours on one word. The poet wrote: “My most unhappy moments are those that passed without poetry,” and called for “full words to help.”

G. Salam was one of the first to turn to the ballad genre. His ballads “Verification”, “Words and Deeds”, “Silent Soldier” and others warn of impending danger, future imperialist aggression. They are based on a conventional plot, often representing witty finds, which indicate an increase in the culture of Bashkir poetry. At the end of the 30s, G. Salam created a wide epic canvas “Through the Years”, in which he glorifies high humanistic ideals and predicts a bright future for the country and people. The evolution of his work is determined by the transition from declarativeness to philosophical depth, from instructions, moralization - to imagery, from rhetoric - to true lyricism.

He was also involved in translations; he translated the poems “Gypsies” by A.S. Pushkin and “Grenada” by M.A. Svetlov into Bashkir. He had a special love for the genre of the poem, which was quite new for that time.

Salam's largest poetic work was his poem “Bala” (“Child”). It takes up more than 50 pages in book format. Covering such serious - especially for “Eastern”, “Muslim” poetry - problems such as family relationships, problems of childbirth, etc., the poet consciously and fearlessly turns to the most relevant topics for that time. The poem had the widest resonance. It was read to the gills, pored over by both young and old, and studied in schools, universities and technical colleges. In a word, it became not only a literary, but also a socio-political phenomenon.

His friend, the Bashkir poet Mukhametyar Hai, was very happy with the success of his friend’s work, and quite sincerely called him the best poet and a master of the poem genre in Bashkir literature.

In Leningrad, Salyam Galimov studied in graduate school and, it should be said, very successfully, which surprised his comrades a lot. They were amazed at his hard work and ability to harmoniously combine scientific work with literary work. The poem “Bala” (“Child”), which he created precisely in Leningrad, was considered a new word in general in all Soviet literature. There have been attempts to translate it into Russian. He was asked to do interlinear translations in order to publish the collection in Russian, but he was so absorbed in scientific work that he never managed to find the time for this. Meanwhile, such a rare and insidious disease continued to develop steadily until it brought him to the grave.

The remarkable Bashkir literary scholar and critic, laureate of the State Prize of Bashkortostan named after Salavat Yulaev, Kim Akhmedyanov, very seriously studied the work of Salam, taking into account both the strengths and weaknesses of his work. Highly appreciating his works, their artistry and the inner meaning embedded in them, he singled out his poem “Shonkar” (“Falcon”), arguing that it was permeated through and through with genuinely deep lyricism.

In the 60s of the last century, under the influence of the same Kim Akhmedyanov, Gazim Shafikov translated G. Salam’s poem “Gumer” (“Life”).

The Bashkir Komsomol Prize was named after Salam, which was replaced by the Shaikhzada Babich Prize during perestroika. In Ufa, for some time G.Salyam lived in the famous house No. 2 on Lenin Street, which was then called the House of Specialists. Today there is a memorial plaque on the house.

Galim Salam belongs to those mighty literary artists who continued, developed and enriched the best traditions of centuries-old Bashkir poetry. His poetry is distinguished by high artistic skill, deep emotionality and sincerity, modernity of themes and universal human content. In the 50-70s, he was an idol of creative youth; his dramaturgy was a subject to imitate for many aspiring poets, a school of poetic mastery. The best representatives of the creative intelligentsia of those years tried to imitate his manner, poetic style, and the romantic spirit of his works.

The poetry of Galim Salam is, first of all, a fiery, heartfelt word, always deeply moving. And the grateful people sacredly keep in their hearts the memory of the talented son of the Bashkir people. Evidence of this is the streets, squares named after him, portraits painted on canvas, and the publication of his works.

The legacy of this wonderful Bashkir poet, Galim Salam, has become integral integral part spiritual wealth, national heritage of the Bashkir people and the entire Turkic world. And today, without losing its significance, it plays an important role in the ideological and aesthetic education of the Bashkir people.

Today marks the 105th anniversary of the birth of Salam Galimov, a prominent poet of the 20th century, an active reformer of Bashkir poetry. Unfortunately, life gave him very little. His poems were not destined to become the lyrics of a wise philosopher. But Salam’s poetry forever retained a fresh, unclouded view of the world, because he lived in the world for only 28 years and left his contemporaries at the age of Gabdulla Tukay and Mikhail Lermontov, having managed to say a lot.

Salyam Galimovich Galimov (literary pseudonym G. Salyam) was born on January 18, 1911 in the village of Tyageshevo (Taskino) of the Shadrinsky district of the Perm province, now Bolshoye Taskino of the Sosnovsky district of the Chelyabinsk region, in the family of a designated mullah. By the age of 13, Salam graduated from first-level school in the village of Sarino. Then the parents sent the teenager to study in Argayash, where in 1928 he graduated from high school with good grades. It was here that Salam’s love for his native word first manifested itself. At school, he took an active part in the publication of the school wall newspaper, where his poems and notes were published. In high school, Salam edited the school literary magazine.

After graduating from school in 1928-1930, the future poet worked as a teacher in the villages of Ibragimovo, Kunashak district, and Ralikeevo, near Argayash, was a Komsomol leader and an active rural correspondent, and participated in the organization of the first collective farms. During these years, notes and the first poems of Salam began to appear in republican newspapers.

In 1930, a nineteen-year-old boy was invited to work at the editorial office of the Bashkortostan newspaper. The desire to receive a literary education led Salyam Galimov to the literary department of the Bashkir Pedagogical Institute. During his studies, his extraordinary literary gift was clearly and fully revealed. During this period, he created such poems as “Moscow”, “Three Songs”, “Morning of the Republic”, “Monument” and the famous poem “Falcon”. He begins to sign his creations with the pseudonym G. Salam.

In 1932, the first book of poems entitled “Anxiety” was published. G. Salam becomes one of the first reformers of Bashkir verse. He conducted a continuous search in the field of intonation and rhythmic possibilities of national poetry. The expansion of the rhythmic intonation of poetry, the introduction of a system of compound rhymes, and the synthesis of various traditions constituted G. Salam’s innovation in the poetry of that time.

In 1937, the poet worked as a researcher at the Bashkir Research Institute of Language and Literature. In 1938, G. Salyam was sent to graduate school at the Leningrad branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In Leningrad, Salyam Galimov successfully studied, surprising his colleagues with his hard work and ability to harmoniously combine scientific work with literary activity. But, unfortunately, he became seriously ill with meningitis and died unexpectedly on July 19, 1939. The newspaper “Evening Leningrad” published an obituary written by the classic of Soviet literature Nikolai Tikhonov.

Salam was buried at the Volkovsky cemetery in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) next to the graves of Ivan Turgenev, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin and Alexander Kuprin. In just ten years of literary activity, a gifted young man from a small Ural village managed to create four poems, about sixty verses and publish dozens of essays and feuilletons.

The major poetic work of G. Salam “We need a song, a song about a hero” became relevant for its time. In the context of the strengthening tendencies of vulgar sociologism in the 30s, the glorification in literature of shock construction projects, oil rigs, and factory chimneys, the poet for the first time sounded the alarm about the moral essence of man and raised the question of the author’s responsibility.

High citizenship and genre originality were clearly manifested in the ode-verses “Morning of the Republic”, “Monument”, “We laugh more cheerfully than the most cheerful”. His epic poems “Falcon”, “Child”, “Life” are characterized by deep psychologism, the use of short story techniques, and the strengthening of the role of auxiliary images, poetic details, and expressive possibilities.

One of the first Bashkir poets G. Salam turned to the ballad genre. His ballads “Verification”, “Words and Deeds”, “Silent Soldier” and others warn of the impending danger of imperialist aggression. At the end of the 30s, G. Salam created a wide epic canvas “Through the Years”, in which he sang high humanistic ideals and predicted a bright future for the country and people. He was also involved in translations - he talentedly translated the poems “Gypsies” by Alexander Pushkin and “Grenada” by Mikhail Svetlov into Bashkir.

G. Salam's largest poetic work was his long poem “Bala” (“Child”). In it, the author consciously and fearlessly addressed topics that were relevant for his time. Unfortunately, as Gazim Shafikov believed, the unjustifiably large size of this truly “epoch-making” poem, to the detriment of poetry, inevitably led to lengthiness and some narrativeness. Nevertheless, it had a wide resonance. Both young and old read it, and studied it in schools, universities and technical colleges. The poem became not only a literary, but also a noticeable socio-political phenomenon. She was considered a new word in all Soviet literature.

The remarkable Bashkir literary scholar and critic Kim Akhmedyanov very seriously studied the work of Salam, taking into account both the strengths and weaknesses of his work. Highly appreciating his works, their artistry and the inner meaning embedded in them, he especially singled out his poem “Shonkar” (“Falcon”), arguing that it was thoroughly imbued with deep lyricism. Unfortunately, this poem (like many others) remained untranslated into other languages.

G. Salam's fame was shaken when he and two of his fellow writers in the fateful 1937 published an accusatory article in the magazine "October" directed against writers of the older generation, many of whom were later declared "enemies of the people", shot or sent to camps. The victims of that ill-fated article were several innocent people, one of whom was the then editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Council of Bashkortostan” Kasim Aznabaev, who spent many years in Stalin’s camps.

Now it is difficult to objectively judge these distant events; there are still disputes. At one time, the Bashkir Komsomol Prize was named after Salam, which was then replaced by the Shaikhzada Babich Prize.

G. Salam’s great friend was Bayazit Bikbay, who dedicated his poem “Life” to him.

In Ufa, for some time G. Salam lived in the famous house No. 2 on Lenin Street, which was then called the House of Specialists. Today there is a memorial plaque installed on the house, which indicates that the Bashkir poet G. Salam once lived here.

Recently, the literary prize named after G. Salyam reappeared, the founder of which was the administration of the Sosnovsky district of the Chelyabinsk region.