Sadriddin Ayni
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Key facts
- Born
- 15 April 1878, Sāktare, Emirate of Bukhara , Russian Empire (now Gʻijduvon District , Bukhara Region , Uzbekistan )
- Died
- 15 July 1954 (1954-07-15) (aged 76), Stalinabad , Tajik SSR , USSR (now Dushanbe, Tajikistan )
- Awards
- Order of Lenin (3) USSR State Prize Hero of Tajikistan Order of Outstanding Merit
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Emirate of Bukhara
- Place of death
- Dushanbe
- Occupation
- prose writer
- Political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Languages spoken
- Persian
- Image
- AyniSadriddin.jpg
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- Commons category
- Sadriddin Ayni
- date of birth
- 1878-01-01
- name in native language
- Садриддин Айнӣ
- date of death
- 1954-01-01
- member of
- Tajik Academy of Sciences
- writing language
- Uzbek
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Encyclopedic overview
Sadriddin Ayni (Tajik: Садриддин Айнӣ, Persian: صدرالدين عينى, Russian: Садриддин Саидмуродович Саидмуродов; 15 April 1878 – 15 July 1954) was a Tajik intellectual who wrote poetry, fiction, journalism, history, and a dictionary. He is regarded by Tajiks as Tajikistan's national poet and one of the most important writers in the country's history.
Biography
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