Nazar Nadzhmi

Nazar Nadzhmi (real name – Khabibnazar Nazmutdinovich Nazmutdinov) was a Bashkir poet, publicist, playwright, and memoirist. People's Poet of Bashkortostan (1992). A participant in the Great Patriotic War. He was born on February 5, 1918 in the village of Minishty (now Dyurtyulinsky District of Bashkortostan). He received primary education at a village school and then studied at the Ufa Metallurgical Workers' preparatory faculty 'Vostokstal'. In 1938 he entered the Bashkir State Pedagogical Institute named after K. A. Timiryazev, at the Faculty of Language and Literature. In 1941 he went to the front and after demobilization, in 1946 he completed his studies at the institute.

After the war Nadzhmi worked in the editorial offices of the newspaper 'Sovet Bashkortostana' and the magazine 'Literary Bashkortostan' (1947–1949). In 1955 he became director of the Bashkir Academic Drama Theatre named after Majit Gafuri, and also edited the satirical magazine 'Khenek' ('Pitchforks') from 1955 to 1959. From 1962 to 1969 Nadzhmi chaired the board of the Union of Writers of Bashkortostan.

Nazar Nadzhmi was actively involved in public life: he was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Bashkir ASSR, a member of the board of the Union of Writers of the Bashkir ASSR and the RSFSR, and a delegate to numerous congresses of writers of Russia and the USSR. Nazar Nadzhmi passed away on September 6, 1999 in Ufa and, according to his will, was buried in his homeland, on the hill at the entrance to the village of Minishty.