Berdi Kerbabayev

بيردي كيرباباييف

3 March 1894 CE · 25 Sha'ban 1311 AH† – 3 March 1974 CE · 9 Safar 1394 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Turkmen Soviet writer (1894–1974), a founder of Turkmen Soviet literature: editor of the newspaper Turkmenistan and the journal Tokmak in the 1920s, head of the Turkmen SSR's science administration in 1934–1936, and author of the novel The Decisive Step, which won the USSR State Prize in 1948, and of Nebit Dag (1957); People's Writer of the Turkmen SSR and an academician of its Academy of Sciences.