Ennan Memutovich Alimov (; 1912–1941) was a
Crimean Tatar writer and artist.
Biography
Ennan Alimov was born in 1912 to a Crimean Tatar family in the village of , near
Belogorsk Belogorsk or Bilohirsk (russian: Белогорск; uk, Білогірськ) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia and Ukraine.
;Urban localities
*Belogorsk, Amur Oblast, a town in Amur Oblast; administratively incorporated as a ...
(now Bilohirsk). After graduating from a nine-year rural school, he worked at a tobacco factory.
[Figures of the Crimean Tatar culture (1921-1944): Bio-bibliographic dictionary. - Simferopol, 1999. p. 35–36.] In 1933, Alimov entered the art studio of
Nikolay Samokish
Mykola Semyonovich Samokish (russian: Микола Семенович Самокиш; translit.: ''Nikolay Semyonovich Samokish''; 25 October 1860, Nizhyn, Chernihiv, Russian Empire - 18 January 1944, Simferopol, USSR) was a Ukrainian and Soviet ...
, graduating in 1936. After the studio was transformed into the , Alimov served as its director from July 1938 to September 1941. Alimov left the studio to serve at the front after the
invasion of the Soviet Union.
He was
killed in action in 1941 as a
senior sergeant.
Alimov's original paintings did not survive.
Reproductions of his paintings ''Bagydzhy kyzlar'' ("Girls-growers"), ''Ormanda tan'' ("Dawn in the forest"), and ''Kaytarma oynagyan kyz'' ("Girl dancing haitarma") were published between 1933 and 1936 in ''Yash Kuvet'' and ''
Komsomolskaya Pravda
''Komsomolskaya Pravda'' (russian: link=no, Комсомольская правда; lit. "Komsomol Truth") is a daily Russian tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper, founded on 13 March 1925.
History and profile
During the Soviet era, ...
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Between 1936 and 1941, Alimov's stories "Native Village", "The
Turtle Dove Flaps Her Wings" and "Fishermen" were published. The main character of the story "The Turtle Dove Flaps Her Wings" was based on his lover Emine Smedlyaeva
and discussed the first love of a teenager with descriptions of her in comparison to rain and the colors of a forest. Alimov's poems "My Homeland" and "Meeting the Dawn" were published in the newspaper ''Literary Crimea''.
Literature
* Panova Z. S. Development of the genre of the story in the Crimean Tatar literature of the 30s. of the XX century (on the example of E. Alimov's story "The turtledove flaps its wing") // Uchenye zapiski Taurida National University im. V. I. Vernadsky. - 2013. - T. 26 (65), No. 1. - Part 1. - S. 192-195. — (Series "Philology. Social Communications").
* Veliulaeva A. Kyrymtatar edebiyaty: 6-nji son. - Akmesdzhit, 1998.
* "I will not forget anyone..." / Collection of works of Crimean Tatar writers 1913-1940. - Simferopol, 2001.
References
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1912 births
1941 deaths
Soviet male writers
Soviet painters
Male painters
People from Bilohirsk Raion
Crimean Tatar writers
Soviet military personnel killed in World War II