Stepan Saryg-Ool
Stepan Agbanovich Saryg-Ool (Russian: Степан Агбанович Сарыг-Оол; Tuvan: Степан Агбаан оглу Сарыг-оол; 17 November 1908 – 27 May 1983) was a Soviet Tuvan poet, writer, folklore specialist, and politician.
Biography
[edit]Stepan Saryg-Ool was born in the rural locality of Torgalyg in 1908. His first writing was published in the Tuvan People's Republic in 1934.
A founding figure in Tuvan literature, Saryg-Ool wrote poems, short stories, and the two-volume autobiographical novel Novel About A Bright Boy.
He was a member of the Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party and joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union upon Tuva's absorption by the Soviet Union as the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic's Tuvan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Tuvan ASSR) in 1944. A delegate to the Supreme Soviet of the Tuvan ASSR, he was elected a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1967.
He was awarded the honorary title of People's Writer of the Tuvan ASSR in 1973.
He died in 1983.
External links
[edit]- Stepan Saryg-Ool in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian)
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- 1908 births
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- 20th-century poets
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Communist University of the Toilers of the East alumni
- Recipients of the Order of the Badge of Honour
- Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Soviet folklorists
- Soviet male poets
- Soviet male writers
- Soviet novelists
- Soviet politicians
- Soviet short story writers