Majit Gafuri, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Majit Gafuri

Bashkir poet

Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1880

Place of Birth: Zilim-Karanovo, Russia

Date of Death: 28-Oct-1934

Profession: poet

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Majit Gafuri (Bashkir: ????? ??????, Janalif: M?zit ?afuri, Bashkir: ??????????? ??????? ??? ???????, romanized: Gäbdelmäcit Nurgäni uli Gafurov AKA Tatar: Cyrillic ????? ??????, Latin Mäcit Gafuri ([mæ'?it ??fu'r??]; Russian: ???????????´? ???????´???? ????´???, Gabdelmazhit Nurganievich Gafurov, also Russian: ????´? ????´??, Mazit Gafuri; 20 July 1880, Zilim-Karanovo, Ufa Governorate, Russian Empire – 28 October 1934, Ufa, Bashkir ASSR, USSR) was a Bashkir and Tatar poet, writer, and playwright.
Gafuri was born to a Tatar-speaking teacher family, in the village of Zilim-Karanovo (now Gafuriysky District, Bashkortostan).
After getting work at Därdemänd's diggings and teaching Kazakh children in the steppe, he studied at the famous Kazan madrasah, Möxämmädiä in 1905-06, then in Galia madrasah, Ufa. His first verse was published in 1902.
The most of his pre-revolutionary verses were anti-religious poems.
After the 1917 revolution and the Russian Civil War, the most of his poems was dedicated for the struggle against the Tsarism.