Mailin, Beimbet Zharmagambetovich

Mailin, Beimbet Zharmagambetovich 

Born Nov. 15, 1894; died Nov. 10, 1939. Soviet Kazakh writer. One of the founders of Soviet Kazakh literature. Member of the CPSU (1925).

Mailin, the son of a poor peasant, was born in Kustanai region. From 1913 to 1915 he studied in an Ufa madrasa. In 1915 he published the novella A Monument of Shugi about the tragic love of a girl from a Kazakh village. Mailin welcomed the Great October Socialist Revolution with enthusiasm. The builder of socialism became the hero of Mailin’s works. In the novella Raushan, a Communist Girl (1929), he described the path of a simple Kazakh girl to active social work. Socialist reforms in Kazakhstan are described in the novel Azamat Azamatych (1934). Mailin’s plays include Front (1933), The Customs of Taltanbai (1934; about collective farm construction), Amangel’dy (1935), and Zhalbyr (1936; about the events connected with the national liberation uprising in 1916 and the Civil War of 1918-20).

WORKS

Tolïq jinaq, vols. 1-4. [Kyzyl-Orda—] Alma-Ata, 1933-36.
Shïgharmalar, vols. 1-6. Alma-Ata, 1960-64.
In Russian translation:
Povesti i rasskazy. Moscow, 1958.
Beren Povesti. Alma-Ata, 1964.

REFERENCES

Zharmagambetov, K. Beiimbet Mailin: Zhizn’ i tvorchestvo. Alma-Ata, 1962.
Karataev, M. “Luch v iurte.” In Ot dombry do knigi. Moscow, 1969.
Istoriia kazakhskoi literatury v trekh tomakh, vol. 3. Alma-Ata, 1971.
Beimbet Mailin: Ukazatel’ literatury. Alma-Ata, 1968.
Karataev, M. “Bayïrghï talant.” In Sheberlik shïngïna. Alma-Ata, 1963.
Nŭrtazin, T. Beyimbet Maylin tvorchestvosï. Alma-Ata, 1966.
Naurïzbaev, B. Beyimbet Maylinning prozasï. Alma-Ata, 1967.
Naurïzbaev, B. Däuir sŭretkeri Alma-Ata, 1969.

M. KH. KARATAEV