On 8 October 2020, in the exhibition area of the Museum of Bulgarian Civilization opened a photo exhibition “Poets in uniform” devoted to a Tatar poet, Hero of the Soviet Union Musa Jalil. Musa Jalil remains in the memory of people as a great singer of the native ground and a public figure who stood at the origins of the new Tatar culture. And of course, he was the indomitable patriot killed for the Motherland in fascist jails.
Musa Jalil was born on 15 February 1906 in the Orenburg region, in the village Mustafino in a large family. His parents were named Rakhima and Mustafa Zalilov. During school years, Jalil took an interest in singing, literature and painting. As a youngster, he joined the Komsomol and actively agitated other children to join it. Then his first poems appeared. By the time of the Great Patriotic War, ten collections of Jalil’s poems had already been printed.
In June 1941, Musa Jalil was drafted into the Red Army. He graduated from the political courses, fought on the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts as a correspondent of the army newspaper “Otvaga” (“Bravery”) of the 2nd Shock Army. On 26 June 1942, the senior political instructor M. M. Zalilov tried to break through the encirclement with a group of soldiers and officers but he was ambushed by the Nazis. During the battle, Jalil was severely injured in the chest. Being unconscious, he was captured. While in captivity, “under executioner’s axe”, Musa Jalil managed to create a poetry cycle “Moabit Diaries”, which is amazing in its poetic tone. This cycle has incorporated centuries-old traditions of Tatar written literature, the influence of eastern poetry, motifs of Tatar folklore and the entire world literature. Jalil fought against fascism equating a pen with a bayonet.
The photo exhibition based on photocopies informed the visitors about the life of our famous compatriot.

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