A prominent Chechen poet Arbi Mamakayev was born into a peasant\u2019s family in the village Nizhni Naur, Nadterechny District of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1918. <\/p>\n
He was orphaned at an early age, when\u00a0 his father and his uncle, both guerrilla fighters, died in Russia\u2019s Civil War. Arbi Mamakayev was brought up at the orphanage in the city of Sernovodsk, and then took a course of studies to qualify for an enrolment in university. In the 1930s he took up work at the newspaper \u201cLeninsky Put\u2019 \u201d and at the radio, and also took a course in play-writing. But his forte turned out to be poetry. Arbi Mamakayev had his first poems published back in 1934, and these were warm lyrics. In his early poems he sings of his country\u2019s nature, his people\u2019s life of that time, and also of his people\u2019s historical past.\u00a0 The poet\u2019s first collection of poems \u201cThe waves of the Terek\u201d came off press in 1940. By that time he had become a mature poet. Small wonder then that during those years he turned to big poems, and one of these \u2013 \u201cAslaga and Selikhat\u201d \u2013 is believed to be one of the best achievements of Chechen modern literature.<\/p>\n
In the early 1940s Arbi Mamakayev was executive secretary of the Writers\u2019 Union of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. At that time his plays \u201cWrath\u201d and \u201cReconnaissance group\u201d were staged at the Chechen-Ingush drama theatre, and his major prose and poetry works (\u201cOn the way to the home village\u201d, \u201cIn the Chechen mountains\u201d, \u201cShatoi\u201d and others) came off press. Also during those years he translated into the Chechen language poems by Mikhail Lermontov, Kosta Khetagurov, Taras Schevchenko, Samuil\u00a0 Marshak and other authors.<\/p>\n
Arbi Mamakayev is one of Chechens\u2019 most-loved poets. He wrote an important page in Chechen history, and people will always need his stirring lyrics. He died in 1958.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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