Musa Cälil

✶February 15, 1906

†August 25, 1944

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About their life

Musa Cälil was a Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter during World War II. He is the only poet of the Soviet Union awarded simultaneously the Hero of the Soviet Union award for his resistance fighting and the Lenin Prize for having written The Moabit Notebooks; both awards were bestowed upon him posthumously.

Soviet poet

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