Ğäliäsğar Ğäliäkbär ulı Kamaletdinov aka Ğäliäsğar Kamal ( ɣæˌliæsˈɣær kʌˈmɑl, , Galiaskar Kamal) is a Tatar

Tatar language

The Tatar language , or more specifically Kazan Tatar, is a Turkic language spoken by the Tatars of historical Kazan Khanate, including modern Tatarstan and Bashkiria...

 writer, dramatist and playwright. Galiaskar Kamal Tatar Academic Theatre

Galiaskar Kamal Tatar Academic Theatre

The Galiaskar Kamal Tatar Academic Theatre is the leading Tatar theater in Kazan, Russia. Named after the playwright Galiaskar Kamal, it was founded on December 22, 1906....

 is named after him.

Biography

Ğäliäsğar Kamal was born on 6 January 1879 in the family of a furrier craftsman in Kazan

Kazan

Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of 1,143,546 , it is the eighth most populous city in Russia. Kazan lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in European Russia. In April 2009, the Russian Patent Office granted Kazan the...

. He studied in the Kazan Madrassahs Ğosmaniä and Möxämmadiä in 1889-1897. At the same time he studied the Russian language

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

 in a three-years municipal school.

The first play of Kamal was called The Unlucky Youth and it was published in 1900. The history of the Tatar Theater started with staging a play called The Pitiful. He actively participated in the activity of Säyyär troupe as an actor and a playwright.

Literature

The creative activity of G. Kamal gained in scope after 1905, when being impressed by the events of the first Russian revolution, he wrote the plays The First Theater, The Bankrupt and others.

External links

• Galiaskar Kamal in Tatar electron library