Tinçurin Kärim Ğäli ulı (

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: Тинчурин Кәрим Гали улы), Kärim Tinçurin (;

: Кәрим Тинчурин, Janalif: Kərim Tincurin; russian: Тинчурин Карим Галиевич, Tinchurin Karim Galievich; 15 September 1887 – 15 November 1938
)"ТИНЧУРИН Карим Галиевич" ("Tinchurin, Karim Galievich"). ''Оренбургская биографическая энциклопедия'' (''Biographical Encyclopedia of Orenburg''). http://orsk-net.ru/kraeved/biblioteka/enciklopedii/obe/t.php?print "ТИНЧУРИН Карим Галиевич" ("Tinhurin, Karim Galievich"). ''Большой Энциклопедический Словарь'' (''Great Biographical Dictionary''). ''Kulichki.net''. Retrieved 8 March 2009. http://education.kulichki.net/dic/20d.html was a Tatars, Tatar playwright and actor. Tinçurin was born to a peasant family, in the village of Tarakanovo (now Akkul in

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). After getting work as a dishwasher in his teens, he studied at the famous Tatar

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. However feeling dissatisfied with the education process there, he left with 82 other pupils in February, 1906. After visiting several Russian provinces, working as an itinerant teacher in rural schools, in 1910 joined his first professional troupe '' Säyyär'', becoming not just an actor, but also a playwright and one of the leading directors. In 1912 he wrote the play ''Honest Labour'' and in 1913 he wrote ''Fatal Step''. Karim was an innovative playwright, studying the complex and contradictory phenomenon of forming personality, and so dealing with the construction of the dramatic conflict in a novel way. In 1918 Tinçurin was based in

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and was appointed chief of the Cultural Department of the ''Central Muslim Military Collegium'', the military wing of Muskom. However, by November 1922, he had founded the Tatar Academic Theatre in

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. Here he worked with a number of prominent actors: B.Tarkhanov, K.Shamil, G.Bolgarskaya and others. Tinçurin wrote more than 30 plays during his short creative life: *''Kazan Guys'' *''Motherland'' *''Blue Shawl'' *''Honest Labour'' (1912) *''Fatal Step'' (1913) *''Yusuf and Zuleyha'' (1918) *''The Parrot'' (1918) *''The American'' (1925) *''Without Sails'' (1926) *''On the Kandra River'' (1932) *''There Were Three of Them (1932) A victim of political repression during

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, Tinçurin was rehabilitated posthumously.

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Karim Tinchurin
accessed 27 May 2008 1887 births 1947 deaths Tatar dramatists and playwrights Great Purge victims from Russia Soviet rehabilitations Soviet Muslims Soviet dramatists and playwrights People from Penza Oblast Russian male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Russian male writers 20th-century Russian dramatists and playwrights Soviet male writers {{Russia-writer-stub