Samanchin Tazabek (1909-1979) - a scholar, literary critic, translator, and a representative of the first generation of Kyrgyz scholars who obtained a degree based on the defense of a dissertation.
He was born in the Kemin Valley in the village of Zhany-Zhol. He grew up in an orphanage. From 1932, he studied in Almaty. In 1929, he graduated from the Kyrgyz Pedagogical Technical School (Frunze), and in 1934,
he graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after V.I. Lenin, and in 1938 - from the graduate school of the Institute of Languages of the Peoples of the USSR.
From 1938 to 1943, he worked as a research associate at the Research Institute of the Kyrgyz Language and Writing, head of the sector of Kyrgyz Soviet literature at the Institute of Language, Literature, and History of the Kyrgyz Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1936, he published "A Primer for Adults" - "Chondor ychun alippe," which was reissued in 1937 and 1938. Thanks to him, in 1946, a collection of selected works by Moldokylych was published with his preface. In 1948, he defended his candidate dissertation on the life and creative activity of Moldokylych and became the first Kyrgyz scholar-literary figure to be awarded the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences. That same year, he published the monograph "Kylych - yazuuchu akyn" - "Kylych - poet-writer." Due to this work, in 1950, he was repressed as a "bourgeois nationalist and cosmopolitan." He was released from prison as an invalid. After his rehabilitation in 1955, not reinstated at the Academy of Sciences, he worked as a research associate at the Research Institute of Pedagogy and taught at the Kyrgyz State Pedagogical Institute. He published a textbook on Kyrgyz literature for the eighth grade "Bizdin adabiyat" ("Native Literature," 1964) and a reader on Kyrgyz literature for the eighth grade (1973).
Cover of T. Samanchin's textbook "A Primer for Adults," published in Latin script in Frunze and Kazan (1937).
