Prose Writer Yakub Khavazov (Khuëshir)

Prose writer Y. Khavazov was born on February 15, 1922, in the city of Pishpek in a peasant family of the poor. In 1936, he graduated from the primary Dungan school in the village of Milyanfan in the Kant district of the Kyrgyz SSR, and from 1936 he studied at the preparatory department of the Kyrgyz Pedagogical Technical School. From 1939 to 1941, he attended the agricultural technical school named after S. M. Kirov in Frunze, from 1948 to 1950 he studied at the RYUSH of the Kyrgyz SSR, and from 1959 to 1964, he was at the Almaty Higher Party School.

He began his labor biography in 1941 as a collective farm worker. In 1942, he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army. During the Great Patriotic War, he served as an officer in the I Baltic Front and reached Königsberg. From 1946, he worked as the chairman of the village council, inspector of trade for the Kyrgyz Cooperative Union, from 1950 he was the director of the "Ala-Too" cinema in Frunze, and from 1954 he served as the chief administrator of the Toktogul Satylganov Kyrgyz State Philharmonic. From 1959, he was the responsible secretary, from 1964 a correspondent, a special correspondent, and from 1985 he was the editor of the Dungan newspaper "Shiyuedi chi".

Y. Khavazov began his literary career with translations into the Dungan language of works by M. Sholokhov "The Fate of a Man," D. Furmanov "Red Landing," "RVS," stories about Lenin, and works by Kyrgyz writers Ch. Aitmatov and K. Kaimov.

The first book of original works by the writer was the collection of stories "The Fate of Khalichi," published in 1975 in Russian. In 1977, a collection of novellas and stories "Debt" was published in the Dungan language, with the theme of the Great Patriotic War, which had not been previously addressed in Dungan literature. He is the author of a number of essays and journalistic articles addressing pressing contemporary issues.

Honored Worker of Culture of the Kyrgyz SSR (1967).

Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1945, member of the Union of Writers of the USSR since 1980, member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR since 1959.

Awarded the Orders of the Patriotic War I and II degrees, medals "For the Defense of Moscow," "For the Capture of Königsberg," "For Valorous Labor. In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V. I. Lenin," "For Labor Valor," "Veteran of Labor," and three Certificates of Honor from the Supreme Soviet of the Kyrgyz SSR.

SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS

in Russian:
The Fate of Khalichi: Stories. —F.: Mektep, 1975. —111 p.
Formation: Novellas. — F.: Kyrgyzstan, 1984. — 160 p.
in Dungan:
Debt: Novella and Stories. — F.: Kyrgyzstan, 1977. — 108 p.

TRANSLATIONS

Stories of Soviet Writers. — F.: Mektep, 1979. — 152 p.