Aaly Tokombaev

Aaly Tokombaev (Kyrgyz: Аалы Токомбаев; November 7, 1904 – June 19, 1988) was a poet, composer, and a famous novelist who greatly influenced the Kyrgyz nation. In 1927 he graduated from the Middle Asian Community University (presently National University of Uzbekistan, in Tashkent. After graduation, he fully devoted himself to Soviet Kyrgyz literature.[1]

Aaly Tokombaev Аалы Токомбаев
Statue of Aaly Tokombaev
Born	(1904-11-07)November 7, 1904 Kayyngdy, Semirechye Oblast, Russian Empire
Died	June 19, 1988(1988-06-19) (aged 83) Bishkek, Kyrgyz SSR, USSR
Pen name	Balka
Occupation	Writer, poet
Language	Kyrgyz
Nationality	Kyrgyz
Citizenship	Russian Empire, Soviet Union
Alma mater	National University of Uzbekistan
Period	1923-1927
Notable awards	Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of the Badge of Honour
Children	Karlen, Taras, Tamara, Ulan

In the following years of 1927 through 1940 he began to write a collection of poems. Tokombaev published the collections Lenin (1927), Flowers of Labor (1932), and Early Poems (1934) and the novellas The Dnieper Empties into the Deep Sea (1939) and The Wounded Heart (1940). Throughout the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945) he wrote patriotic and narrative poems through which he expressed his opinions, ideas, and beliefs.

In his time Kyrgyzstan was the scene of a struggle between tsarism and Soviet rule. He wrote such novels as Before the Dawn, Part 1; Bloody Years (1935); Before the Dawn, Part 2 (1947). Through those books he expressed opinions on the unfair rule and treatment of the Kyrgyz people.

He died in 1988.