Prose writer, poet, playwright D. Ashubaev was born in 1912—1943 in the village of Mamai, Ak-Su district of the Issyk-Kul region, in a peasant-poor family.
After finishing seven grades in his native village, he studied at the Tyup Agricultural College from 1925 to 1931.
From 1931 to 1936, he worked as the chairman of the village council, deputy head in the political departments of the state farms "Kochkorka" and "Orgochor," from 1936 — secretary of the Karakol district committee of the Komsomol of Kyrgyzstan, secretary of the Karakol regional committee of the Komsomol of Kyrgyzstan, from 1937 — head of the republican Department of Arts under the Council of People's Commissars of the Kyrgyz SSR, from 1938 until the beginning of the Great Patriotic War — in the apparatus of the management of the Union of Writers of Kyrgyzstan, responsible secretary in the editorial office of the magazine "Sovettik adabiyat jana iskusstvo," in the Chui department of public education. D. Ashubaev was a participant in the Great Patriotic War and died in battle with fascist occupiers in the village of Novo-Manych, Rostov region.
His creative biography began in 1939. In 1940, the poem "Kaiyrduu dostor" ("Good Friends") was published, and in 1941 — the story "Terek kechuu" ("Deep Ford"). He is the author of the stories "Pul'emetchiki," "Ispol'zovannaya klyatva," "Druzhba," and several plays: "Proshchanie," "Moi plody," literary-critical and journalistic articles dedicated to the works of Hamza, Hakimzade, Niyazi, A. Tsereteli, T. Satylganov, and the Kalmyk epic "Jangar." In collaboration with N. Chekmenov, for the first time in the history of Kyrgyz Soviet literature, proverbs of the Kyrgyz people were translated into Russian and subsequently published as a separate book. The writer also translated A. S. Pushkin's fairy tales, M. Yu. Lermontov's poems, and N. V. Gogol's prose into Kyrgyz. During the Great Patriotic War, while at the front, he created a number of poems calling for the struggle against fascist occupiers, which were published at that time in the republican press.
A member of the Union of Soviet Writers since 1940.
A school in the village of Maman, Ak-Su district of the Issyk-Kul region is named after D. Ashubaev.
SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS
in Kyrgyz language
Kaiyrduu dostor: Poem. —F. —Kazan: Kyrgyzmambas, 1940.—32 p. Faithful friends.
Teren kechuu. —F.: Kyrgyzmambas, 1959. — 180 p. Deep ford.
Teren kechuu: Story. —F.: Kyrgyzstan, 1972.— 124 p. Deep ford.
Teren kechuu: Story, poems, poem. — F.: Kyrgyzstan, 1981. — 96 p. Deep ford.
