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Musa CalilMusa Cälil (also transliterated as Mussa Jalil, Mussa Djalil, Musa Dzhalil, Mussa Dschalil, Musa Dschlil, Musa Celil, Musa əlil Cyrillic: Муса Джалиль, Муса Җәлил) (1906--1944) was a Soviet Tatar poet. Musa Clil was born as Musa Mostafa ulı Clilov /ja-lee-LOF/ on February 15, 1906, in the village of Mostafa in the Orenburg guberniya. He began to publish poems as a teenager and became a member of the Communist party. After studying literature in Moscow, he worked as a playwright at the Tatar State Opera in Kazan. In 1935, the first Russian translations of his poems were published. In 1940, he became the chairman of the Tatar Literary Association and to this day is regarded as one of the most important authors in the Tatar language. After Germany invasion of the USSR in June 1941, he was drafted and served as a political officer and war correspondent. In June of 1942, he was seriously wounded and captured. After a while, he joined the Wehrmacht propaganda unit for the Legion İdel-Ural which consisted mainly of Tatars and Bashkirs under the false name Ğmrov /gher-ma-RROF/. There Musa organized a secret group which undertook various sabotage and subversive activities against Germans. In August of 1943, he was arrested with his comrades and imprisoned to Moabit prison in Berlin. On February 12, 1944, he was sentenced to death, and on August 25, 1944, he was murdered in Pltzensee /PLER-tsen-ze-eh/. With his patriotic poetry he strengthened his compatriots' will to resist the Nazists. His writings were preserved by Tatars Ğabbas Şäripov /ghahb-BAHS shah-ree-POF/, Niğmät Teregulov /neegh-MAHT te-re-goo-LOF/ and a Belgian Andr Timmermans and published later as two books under the title (Moabit Dftre, Moabit Notebook). The origins are preserved at the National Museum of Tatarstan, handed over by poet's widow Äminä Zälälova /a-mee-NA za-la-loh-VAH/. Writings: İptşk (To Comrade) (1929.), Ordenlı millionnar (The Millions Decorated with Orders) (1934.), Xat taşuı (Postman) (1940.) poem, Altın (1935.-1941.), İldar (1940.) opera libretto, Tupı antı (The Oath of Artilleryman) (1943.) Clil, Musa Clil, Musa Clil, Musa
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