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Salavat Yulaev

(1754-1880)

Salavat Yulaev was born in June 1754 in the village of Tekey,  Shaitan- Kudei  region ( Salavat  region at present), Ufa province in the family of Bashkir elder Yulai Aznalin who was an outstanding personality, rich clever and influential.

Salavat like his father was an active  and influential person. He was the leader of rebellious Bashkortostan from the beginning of the peasant war of 1773-1775.

On the 24 of November 1774, Salavat was caught by kingly troops. Salavat and his father were sent to Moscow. In ten months they were punished in public. In a month they were sent to a lifelong hard labour.

 Salavat Yulaev was not only a national hero, he was also the first poet. He embodied heroism and poetic talent of the bashkir people. He was the first to use the bashkir poetic word as a weapon in the struggle for better life.

Salavat Yulaev`s compositions remained only in line-to-line translation into Russian. Before this translation, his poems  “ Oh, my Urals, Land of Plenty”, “ On a calm night in a copse”, “ I let my arrow Fly  High”.