Translator and prose writer U. Abdulkayimov was born in 1909 and died on September 12, 1963, in the village of Bagysh, Kogart volost, Andijan district (now Suzak district of Osh region) in a peasant-poor family.
Until 1923, he studied at a rural boarding school, in 1923 — at a boarding school in Tashkent, and from 1924 to 1925 — at the Kazakh-Kyrgyz Institute of Enlightenment. After the national delimitation of the republics of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, he transferred to the Kyrgyz Pedagogical Technical School and graduated in 1929.
From 1929 to 1930, he worked as the director of the exemplary school No. 8 in Frunze and as the secretary of the magazine "Zha Tsy Madaniyat Zholunda". In 1930, he was sent as an employee of the Kyrgyz section to the Central Publishing House of the Peoples of the USSR in Moscow.
In 1931, he was recalled to work at the Kyrgyz Research Institute of Language, Literature, and History, where he worked subsequently from 1933 to 1937 and from 1940 to 1942. From 1931 to 1933, he was the head of the Jalal-Abad district Department of Education, and from 1937 to 1940, he was the head of the literary department of the Kyrgyz Dramatic Theater, from 1945 to 1947 he was an editor at Kyrgyzgosizdat, and from 1947 to 1949, he was a literary consultant in the board of the Writers' Union of Kyrgyzstan.
In 1942, he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army and was wounded in battles near Velikiye Luki. In 1943, he was sent to the 1st Leningrad Infantry School named after S. M. Kirov and graduated in 1944.
In 1945, as part of the 39th Army, he was transferred to Manchuria, and in December of the same year, he was demobilized from the ranks of the Soviet Army.
In 1928, stories "At Dawn" ("Tats") and "On the Way to Happiness" ("Bakyt Zholunda") were published in the magazine "Zha Tsy Madaniyat Zholunda". In the 1930s, he wrote a number of short stories and acted as an editor of school anthologies on native literature. A significant contribution to Kyrgyz Soviet literature was made by the novel "Maidan" ("Battle"), the first book of which was published in 1961, and the second in 1966. This novel was published as a separate book in Russian as well. U. Abdulkayimov is a remarkable translator of world and Russian classics into the Kyrgyz language. He translated plays such as "The Sheep's Well" by Lope de Vega, "Georges Dandin, or The Duped Husband" by Molière, "The Government Inspector" by N. V. Gogol, the drama "Boris Godunov", poems and lyrical verses by A. S. Pushkin, as well as "In the People" by A. M. Gorky, "Young Guard" by A. A. Fadeev, the comedy "Arshin Mal Alan" by U. Gadjibekov, and others.
A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1944, and a member of the Union of Soviet Writers since 1935.
Awarded the Order of the Red Star, medals "For the Capture of Königsberg", "For Victory over Japan", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", "For Labor Distinction", and a Certificate of Honor from the Supreme Soviet of the Kyrgyz SSR.
SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS
In Kyrgyz
Maidan: Novel.—F.: Kyrgyzmambas, 1961. — 292 p. Front.
Maidan: Novel. — F.: Kyrgyzstan, 1966. — 712 p. Front.
Maidan: Novel. — F.: Kyrgyzstan, 1980. — 652 p. Front.
In Russian
Battle: Novel. — M.: Sov. writer, 1975. — 464 p.
In the languages of the peoples of the USSR
Battle: Novel. — Kyiv: Dnipro, 1984.—Ukr.
TRANSLATIONS
Seifullina L. Peasants. — F.: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1932.
Gorky M. Grandfather Arkhip and Lenka. — F.: Kyrgyzuchpedgiz, 1935.— 21 p.
Pushkin A. S. The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish. — F.: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1936, — 16 p.
Pushkin A. S. The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish. — F.: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1937. — 16 p.
Pushkin A. S. The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish. — F.: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1947. — 16 p.
Gogol N. V. The Government Inspector. — F.: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1937. — 80 p.
Molière. Georges Dandin, or The Duped Husband: Comedy in 3 acts. — F.: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1939. — 77 p.
Pushkin A. S. The Tale of the Golden Rooster. — F.: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1940, — 16 p.
Pushkin A. S. The Tale of the Golden Rooster. — F.: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1949,— 12 p.
Pushkin A. S. The Tale of the Priest and His Worker Balda. — F.: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1949. — 11 p.
Chekhov A. P. Vanka. — F.: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1952. — 68 p.
Gogol N. V. The Government Inspector, — F.: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1952. — 96 p.
Gorky M. In the People: Story — F.: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1954. — 376 p.
Fadeev A. A. Young Guard. — F.: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1954. — 440 p.
Fadeev A. A. Young Guard. — F.: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1955. — 440 p.
Fadeev A. A. Young Guard. — F.: Kyrgyzstan, 1973. — 777 p.
Fadeev A. A. Young Guard. — F.: Mektep, 1982. — 696 p.
Pushkin A. S. The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish. — F.: Mektep, 1984.— 14 p.
Pushkin A. S. The Tale of the Priest and His Worker Balda. — F.: Mektep, 1987. — 14 p.
