In Moscow, Gulag Museum marks anniversary of Vainakh deportation by lecture about fate of poets

At the memorial evening, devoted to the 72nd anniversary of deportation of the Chechen and Ingush peoples to Kazakhstan and Central Asia, a lecture was presented about the fates and works of poets, including Khevsur poet Gabriel Djabushanuri and Ingush poet Djemaldin Yandiev. Participants of the memorial evening have noted that the archives store a lot of unstudied materials about the deportation.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that for the third year, Chechnya holds no commemorative events on February 23.

The evening of February 23 was organized with the assistance of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Ingushetia under the Russian President and the Ingush branch of the "Memorial". This was reported by Maryam Yandieva, the author of the monographs on the deportation of the Chechen and Ingush peoples.

Ingush envoy Ruslan Khautiev called the deportation of 1944 one of the most tragic pages of the history of the Ingush people.

Gabriel Djabushanuri was born in 1914 and died in 1968. Djemaldin Yandiev was born in 1916 and died in 1979. Both poets had tough peasant childhood, and both of them yearned for education.

Maryam Yandieva has noted that Gabriel Djabushanuri was the first and only poet who wrote about the fate of the deported Ingush people in the mid 1940s. "It is hard to imagine how challenging these verses were at the height of the Stalin's power," Maryam Yandieva has said.

Let us remind you that residents of Ingushetia marked the 72nd anniversary of the deportation of the Chechen and Ingush peoples by a rally and collective mourning prayer at the Memorial of Fame in Nazran.

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