On 26 April 2021, the head of the department “Museum Street” of Bolgar Museum-Reserve Sagirova G. Yu. together with the Ministry of Education and Science of RT summed up the results of the All-Russian readers’ contest “We are a nation having Tukay” devoted to the 135th anniversary of the birth of a great Tatar poet Gabdulla Tukay. 619 students from 245 educational institutions of 43 regions of Russia participated in the contest.
G. Tukay entered the history of Tatar literature as a great poet who laid the foundation of national poetry and created its classical style. Tukay lived a short life but he left a huge heritage almost half of which is children’s literature.
The participants presented their creative works in the distance format in the form of videos and audio recordings. Originality, variety, novelty and creativity distinguished the works. Schoolchildren read with pleasure Tukay’s stories and poems.
Works by age group of grades 1-4 and 5-9 were presented on the contest. Children showed their creativity, fantasy and skill. Among the most active territories-participants, there are the Samara, Kurgan, Penza, Ulyanovsk, Tyumen, Novosibirsk, Sverdlovsk, Omsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Ivanovo, Kirov, Orenburg, Oryol and Moscow oblasts, the Stavropol and Perm Territories, the Republic of Bashkortostan, the Chuvash Republic, the Udmurt Republic, Mordovia and Mari El.
Jury and organizing committee of the contest chose the winners in each age group.
The contest was held for the purpose of promoting the poet’s creativity, preserving and developing national cultures and languages, developing creative activity and creating environment for imaginative communication.

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