Abselâm Islâmov (Russian: Абселям Ислямов; 1 April 1907 — 1 December 1995) was a Crimean Tatar party worker, commissar, and journalist. For 25 years, he was the chief editor of the Crimean Tatar language[a] newspaper Lenin Bayrağı.
Abselâm Islâmov | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 April 1907 Tai-Vakuf village, Qarasuvbazar region, Russian Empire |
| Died | 1 December 1995 (aged 88) |
| Known for | Serving as chief editor of the newspaper Lenin Bayrağı for 25 years |
| Awards | Order of the Patriotic War Order of the Red Star Order of the Badge of Honour |
Early life
editIslâmov was born on 1 April 1907 in Tai-Vakuf village to an extremely poor Crimean Tatar family with many siblings.[2][3] His family rented land from a landowner to run a farm, and what little money they had leftover went to food for the family.[3] His parents and many of his siblings died in the famine of the 1920s,[3] and he survived because he lived in the Subhi Children's Home at the time.[2] He became a member of the Komsomol in 1923,[2] and in 1930 he was admitted to the Communist Party.[4] From 1929 to 1932 he attended the Frunze Pedagogical Institute of Crimea, which he graduated from with honors.[5] He entered the Red Army in 1935,[6] but until the start of the Great Patriotic War he did civilian work, working at the Higher Agricultural School and later the Institute for Mass Training of Activists.[5] Throughout the 1930s he did many jobs, being an instructor at a regional Komsomol committee,[1] the head of a department at the newspaper Qızıl Qırım, and worked at a pioneer youth magazine.[1] His career in the Communist Party steadily grew in the latter part of the 1930s: he became the head of the Crimean branch of the Institute for the Training of Party Activists, and in 1938 he became a member of the Crimean Regional Party Control Commission.[3] He was called up to the Red Army again in 1940,[7] when many other political workers were mobilized.[5] He taught economics at the Kachin Aviation School and was later sent to the Pavlograd Aviation School.[5]
World War II
editDuring the war, Islâmov was the head of the political department of the 220th Fighter Aviation Division, which later became the 1st Guards Fighter Aviation Division.[1][8] He was often praised by his commanders for his attentive work in educating pilots and journalism about the division.[9] He ended the war with the rank of major,[10] and was stationed in Dresden until 1946.[2]
Life in exile
editFrom 1946 he lived in exile, he first lived in Samarkand, and worked as the head of the ideological department in the Samarkand Regional Party Committee.[11][2] Later he was given an apartment in Tashkent.[2] In 1957 he was charged with establishing the Crimean Tatar language newspaper[a] Lenin Bayrağı and the given the position of editor-in-chief of the newly restarted newspaper;[11] for 25 years, he was the chief editor of the newspaper.[3] He worked hard to maintain the peace between editorial staff, which was complicated by the fact that Sharof Rashidov would frequently send him letters from staff denouncing each other.[2] In addition to his work at the newspaper, he was elected as a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR.[4] In 1977 he was awarded the title of Honored Worker of Culture of Uzbekistan;[12] he retired in 1981 and died on 1 December 1995 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.[12] While he did not return to Crimea, his son Zemfir did move to Crimea after the fall of the Soviet Union.[13]
Footnotes
edit- ^ a b Lenin Bayrağı was a Crimean Tatar language newspaper published in the Uzbek SSR; however, Soviet magazine Zhurnalist labeled it as a Tatar language newspaper[1] due to Soviet restrictions of the use of the term Crimean Tatar; the Crimean Tatar language is not a dialect of the Tatar language but a completely separate language.
References
edit- ^ a b c d Arifov 1977, p. 38.
- ^ a b c d e f g Bekirov 2018.
- ^ a b c d e Ablyazov 2022.
- ^ a b Депутаты 1976, p. 235.
- ^ a b c d Veliyev 2007, p. 323.
- ^ Award list on the site «pamyat-naroda.ru» (archive materials of TsAMO, ф. 33, оп. 687572, д. 1417)
- ^ Arifov 1990, p. 234.
- ^ Abzalov 2022.
- ^ Veliyev 2007, p. 323-325.
- ^ Veliyev 2017, p. 565.
- ^ a b Veliyev 2007, p. 325.
- ^ a b Islyamova 2012, p. 6.
- ^ Veliyev 2007, p. 328.
Bibliography
edit- Ablyazov, Emir (1 April 2022). "Человек своего времени" [A man of his time]. goloskrimanew.ru (in Russian).
- Arifov, Enver (1977). "Редактор Абселям Ислямов". Zhurnalist (in Russian) (12).
- Arifov, Enver (26 November 1987). "Партия аскери" [Party Soldier]. Lenin Bayrağı (in Crimean Tatar). No. 140. p. 4.
- Arifov, Enver (1990). Комендант - нынъ ишлери (in Crimean Tatar). Гъафур Гъулом номидаги Адабиёт ва санъат нашриёти.
- Bekirov, Shevki (10 August 2018). "Абселям Ислямов – дитя своей эпохи" [Abselyam Islamov - a child of his time]. goloskrimanew.ru (in Russian). No. 32.
- Islyamova, Z. (2012). Абселям Ислямов (1907-1995) (PDF) (in Russian). Къырым Джумхуриет муэссисеси «И. Гаспринский адына къырымтатар кутюпханеси» Информацион-библиографик болюги.
- Veliyev, Ablyaziz (2005). Къараманлар ольмейлер: Къырымтатарлар Экинджи Дюнья дженкинде (in Crimean Tatar). Къырым девлет окъув-педагогика нешрияты.
- Veliyev, Ablyaziz (2007). Къараманлар ольмейлер: Къырымтатарлар Экинджи Дюнья дженкинде [Heroes do not die: Crimean Tatars in the Second World War] (in Crimean Tatar). Къырым девлет окъув-педагогика нешрияты.
- Veliyev, Ablyaziz (2017). Боевые офицеры: Крымские татары в Великой Отечественной войне. Том 2 [Military officers: Crimean Tatars in the Great Patriotic War. Volume 2] (in Russian). Simferopol: ГАУ РК «Медиацентр им. И. Гаспринского». pp. 311–314. ISBN 978-5-906959-06-5. OCLC 1019651855.
- Депутаты Верховного Совета Узбекской ССР (Девятый созыв) [Deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR (Ninth Convocation)] (in Russian). Ŭzbekiston. 1976.