1. Gabdulkhay Akhatov became a member of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and was chairman of the specialized boards for doctoral and master's theses in a number of universities across the now-defunct USSR.
10 Facts About Gabdulkhay Akhatov
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Gabdulkhay Akhatov was the founder of a number of research institutions, including the modern scientific school of Tatar dialectological and the phraseological Kazan school.
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Gabdulkhay Akhatov put the dialects of the Siberian Tatar language into two categories; one of Baraba and Tom Tatars which he named dialects of Eastern Siberian Tatars, while dialects of Tyumen and Omsk Oblasts he named dialects of Western Siberian Tatars.
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Gabdulkhay Akhatov is the author of the widely known book - "Phraseological Dictionary of the Tatar Language".
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For more than 30 years, Professor Gabdulkhay Akhatov headed the department of Tatar philology at various universities and institutes in Russia.
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Gabdulkhay Akhatov published a fundamental work on the main sign of paired words, explored and thoroughly investigated the nature of the double negative in the Turkic languages, and discovered and formulated the law of pairing in Turkic languages.
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Gabdulkhay Akhatov trained over 40 doctors and candidates of sciences, and published about 200 scientific papers.
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Gabdulkhay Akhatov organized and led several dialectological expeditions and was the author of fundamental scientific works, dictionaries, textbooks, manuals and programs for dialectology, phraseology, and lexicology.
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Gabdulkhay Akhatov was a recipient of the Medal "For Labour Valour" and the Medal "Veteran of Labour".
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Gabdulkhay Akhatov's son Aydar Akhatov was born on 20 June 1957 and is a Russian state, political and public figure, Economist, a second doctorate in Economics, Ecologist and Lawyer.