On 7 May 2024, an employee of the department “Museum Street” of the Bolgar Museum-Reserve Sagirova L. Sh. for 18 pupils of Bolgar Cadet Boarding School held a museum lesson “They fought for a peaceful sky” in the Museum of A. Alish.
On 9 May, we celebrate the bright holiday of Victory over Hitler’s fascism. Tatarstan made a worthy contribution to the defeat of the enemy. More than 700 thousand of our fellow countrymen fought with weapons in their hands at the war fronts, half of them did not return home. One of them is A. Alish. Since the beginning of the war, Alish was in the active army. He fought in the Bryansk direction. In autumn letters from him stopped coming. Fascist camps where the fate threw the prisoner Alish is Lithuanian Alitus, camps in the Czech Republic, Poland, Wustrau near Berlin where M. Jalil and A. Alish met and were together, shoulder to shoulder until the end.
From the beginning of 1943 to the middle of 1944, the underground group Jalil-Kurmashev-Alish worked among Muslim prisoners in the rear. Jalil got officials from Goebbels’s department to entrust him with the issue of a newspaper in order to attract Muslims to fight against the Soviets as part of the “Idel-Ural” legion. The Muslim battalion crossed the front line and fought in the ranks of the Belarusian partisans against the common enemy. The underground work in the very lair of the enemy was cut short in August 1944. The Belgian antifascist was able to send to Alish’s relatives the last message from him. The date on it is 29 January 1944.
In August 1944, within 30 minutes the glorious sons of the Tatar people were beheaded. There were 12 of them. Alish was the third, Jalil was the fifth. Friends embraced for the last time and ascended the scaffold.
Pupils learnt many interesting facts about imprisonment, listened to the letter of Alish’s mother who waited for him until her death, listened to his poems and M. Jalil’s poems from “Moabit Notebook”.

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