1. Kaisyn Kuliev's poems are widely translated to most languages in the former Soviet Union, including Russian, Ossetian, Lithuanian, Belarusian, Armenian.
11 Facts About Kaisyn Kuliev
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Kaisyn Kuliev was born on November 1,1917, in a Balkar aul Upper Chegem to a family of stock-breeders and hunters.
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Kaisyn Kuliev was orphaned at an early age and started to work.
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In 1935 Kaisyn Kuliev arrived in Moscow and entered the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts.
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Kaisyn Kuliev attended lectures at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute and continued to write.
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In 1940 Kaisyn Kuliev was drafted into the Red Army, where he served in the paratrooper brigade.
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Kaisyn Kuliev participated in the Battle of Stalingrad as a military correspondent for the Syny Otechestva newspaper.
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In May 1956, Kaisyn Kuliev went to Moscow, and in 1957 he published Mountains and The Bread and the Rose with the help of Russian poet Nikolai Tikhonov.
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In 1956, Balkars were allowed to return to their native places and Kaisyn Kuliev returned to Nalchik where he published his collections The Wounded Stone, The Book of the Land, The Evening, The Evening Light, A Beauty of the Earth, and others.
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Kaisyn Kuliev's poetry was recognized by Soviet officials when Stalin's era ended, and he was posthumously honored with State Prizes of the Soviet Republics, USSR State Prize and Lenin Prize but only in 1990.
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Kaisyn Kuliev died in 1985 and was buried in the garden of his house.