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The writer was born in the Lebap Region in 1925. He was orphaned early, and the second significant place for him was the Halach Orphanage near Kerki city, where he received primary education and continued his studies at the Kerki Pedagogical School. The future writer received a diploma in 1941 when he was 15, and worked for two years in a rural school. But, as soon as it became possible, he volunteered for the front. This happened in February 1943.
The war was not an inspiration for the future writer. Despite the fact that he voluntarily mobilized, graduated from the school of medical instructors and fought in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian fronts, forced the Dnieper and Dniester, liberated villages and cities of Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, was wounded by a mine fragment, captured, escaped from captivity, awarded the medals “For Courage” and “For the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”, he did not like to talk and write about the war.
He wrote about people. About those who pursued the Victory span after span, “cured” it in hospitals, “stood” on patrols, “delivered” with letters of hope from relatives, fought in partisan detachments... About those who lived waiting for the end of battles and in hope for peace, and did everything possible, snd sometimes impossible, for this.
The novel “Aydogdy Takhirov”, translated into Russian under the title “Stars Do Not Die Away”, was exactly such a piece in the creative work of Nariman Jumaev. The story of the Hero of the Soviet Union, born in the village of Arap-Kala in the Trans-Caspian Region, who courageously fought against the Nazis and died in captivity in the village of Big Dubovitsy, literally must be written not by someone else, but a person of similar education, kindred spirit. This voice of the departed soldier was front-line writer Nariman Jumayev.
Every word in the novel is about a Man of the Era. Born in the Russian Empire in 1907, Aydogdy Takhirov was an ardent supporter of changes, struggled with class inequality and constantly learned. He served in the Red Army from 1929 to 1931, then in the police to be finally the Inklab collective farm chairman of the Hiveabad village council in Kaahka district.
And then the war broke out... On the night of December 30, 1943, the commander of an infantry company of the 87th Turkmen Separate Rifle Brigade of the 11th Army was in military guard near the village of Big Dubovitsy. Nothing boded trouble, because on the New Year’s Eve everybody always believes in miracles...
The company of the Nazis came up suddenly. Four guarding soldiers fought off the Nazis. Takhirov’s comrades died, and he, seriously wounded, having killed 47 enemy soldiers, was captured. Commanders of the fascist army had other plans for him.
How to write about the pain and humiliation of Senior Sergeant Takhirov? How to describe the horror of torture without sinking into vulgarity, rudeness, without making human suffering just a farce on a sheet of paper? Nariman Jumayev succeeded. From the pages of his novel the reader is addressed by the infinitely courageous, unbroken, and burning with a special light Man.
He spoke for the last time with his comrades as follows: “...Brothers! I am Senior Sergeant Aydogdy Takhirov. Did you recognize me by voice?… Listen to me! Listen to me, brothers! BEAT FASCIST VIPERS! STICK TO YOUR GUNS, BROTHERS! DO NOT BELIEVE THEM. VICTO...”. His voice, rushing from the speakers and imprinted in memory from the pages of the book, was cut by a sharp click. But it resounded in hearts for a long time.
In order to make the Turkmen hero “stand up” before the eyes of his contemporaries and descendants as if alive, Nariman Jumayev studied many archives, hundreds of references and reports, talked with relatives and friends of Aydogdy Takhirov, visited his burial place and touched the obelisk above his grave. How could he do less for a compatriot?
The “portrait” of unbroken Aydogdy Takhirov by Nariman Jumayev is still read in schools and studied at universities, and the history of the Turkmen soldier causes tremor and pride.
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After the war, Nariman Jumayev returned to his native school in Halach, and worked there until 1951. In 1950 he entered the TSU Faculty of History for external training, immediately as the 3rd year student, where, fate brought him together with his future wife, future Professor, Doctor of Economics, first Rector of the Turkmen Institute of National Economy Raisa Habibovna Bakasova. It was the period when Nariman Jumayev began to write. His first story “Pure Heart” was published by the journal Sovet Edebiyaty (Soviet Literature). All subsequent works are imbued with the writer’s passion for the history of his native land. Nariman Jumayev wrote about what he knew: about the history of the Amudarya riverside Turkmens, the Seljuks, the Parthian Kingdom (the last work by the writer, published after his death was the historical novel “Parthia” (1995)).
He also wrote plays admired by the Turkmen audience. “Cure for Love”, “Golden Star”, “Byahbit Palvan”played on the stages of the central and regional theaters always gather full halls.
Nariman Jumayev was a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR from 1957. In 1961 he completed the Higher Literary Courses at the Literary Institute named after A.M. Gorky in Moscow, where Viktor Astafiev was his close friend.
Nariman Jumayev translated many works by Russian classics, including Gogol, Lermontov, Gorky, Chekhov, Tolstoy into the Turkmen language, which are now studied in general education schools of Turkmenistan.
Along with his colleagues Berdy Kerbabaev, Hydyr Deryaev, Beki Seitakov and many others, Nariman Jumayev also described the other side of life, where there are no bullets and bitter snow, but about life in Turkmenistan full of serious passions. The author wrote such imperishable works as “Silent daughter-in-law”, “Blank shot”, “Kiyas”, “Forty days, forty nights”, “Avengers”, “The caravan goes around the stars”, “Jeyhun,“ Province ”and many others where colorful, national, completely devoted to the cause heroes also stand vividly before the eyes.
They raise the women’s issue, promote the voice of youth, talk about the hardships of the village, and fight class inequality. They are assertive like spring rays, as persistent as the waves of the Caspian Sea, and unstoppable, like life itself. They talk about their homeland and are ready to take responsibility for its development. They speak from the pages of the works by Nariman Jumayev which are still relevant and interesting, and have not at all lost their importance. And they are listened and heard.
Altyn ASHIROVA Photos from the writer’s family archive