POET, EDUCATOR SAFUAN OF YAKSHIGULOV AS A TRANSLATOR

Abstract

The article examines the enlightenment and the translation creativity of Bashkir poet Safuan Yakshigulov. The writer’s attitude, political activity, and civic position are revealed through the analysis of his works. The scientific text compares the works of Russian poets with the Bashkir fables of the translator. The thoughts and open statements of the writers were translated into Russian by the educator. Examples of new poetic images are given, with the help of which the poets revealed the spirit of the time, the spiritual world, and the socio-economic problems of the people. The work of the Bashkir poet-educator of the early twentieth century Safuan Yakshigulov, who during his lifetime prepared and published 4 poetry collections, still remains poorly studied. The 2nd volume of “History of Bashkir Literature” (Ufa, 1991) and the 1st volume of the same collective work (Ufa, 2012) mention his creative heritage in general terms. His translation work has not been studied or covered at all. This work is a graduate student. The material is a new study in this field and may have important scientific value for Bashkir literary studies. The article briefly analyzes some of the poems of S. Yakshigulov, which are poetic translations of widely known works of such classics of Russian literature as I. Krylov, I. Dmitriev and L. Tolstoy. The focus is on a fairly wide range of scientific literature and sources.