Berdi Kerbabayev

Berdi Kerbabayev was born in March 1894 in the village of Gowkyzereň, in the Tejen district, into a family of farmers. After the village school, he studied at a madrasa in Bukhara. He took part in the Basmachi movement, left it in May 1919 for the Bolsheviks and served in the political department of the Transcaspian front, then in the public education service of his district. Trained at the Oriental Institute in Leningrad and an editor of newspapers, he presided over the Writers' Union and became an academician; he translated Pushkin, Gogol and Tolstoy into Turkmen. He died in Ashgabat in 1974.

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• NovelAýgytly ädimBerdi Kerbabayev · 1940not translated into EnglishLiterature