October 2001 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding educator, researcher of the Tatar, Tuvan, and Khakass languages Fazyl Garifovich Iskhakov (1901-1959) .1 F. G. Iskhakov comes from a poor family. He was born and raised in Troitsk, Orenburg Province (now Chelyabinsk Region), where the population spoke Tatar, Bashkir, Kazakh and Russian. From the age of 11, serving in various merchants ' trading establishments, he became involved in this multilingualism. Raised by a grandmother who wanted a better life for his grandson, he was naturally curious, intelligent and purposeful, and he aspired to knowledge. Therefore, he took advantage of the right granted to him in the morning to attend first the Tatar elementary school, then the Tatar teachers 'seminary " Vazifa". With the establishment of Soviet power in Troitsk in 1919, the work on educating the Tatars was revived in the city. Iskhakov began to participate and work in the central Tatar library organized by him. Since 1921, it was necessary to combine work in a school, library and study - first at the Tatar Institute of Public Education, then at the Practical Institute of Public Education (in Russian). In 1926, he was sent to Moscow to continue his studies at the Pedagogical Faculty of the Second Moscow State University (now Moscow State Pedagogical University); in the third year, his studies had to be interrupted due to various life difficulties. In 1926-1937. (intermittently) he taught Tatar at the Communist University of the Workers of the East (KUTV) and worked as an assistant at the Department of Native Languages. Here he was lucky enough to work with E. D. Polivanov, and this finally decided his creative fate - all his life he was enthusiastically engaged in the study of Turkic languages, considering E. D. Polivanov as his teacher. In his teaching, scientific, methodological, and translation activities, a special place was occupied by the duties of an instructor-researcher in Turkic language ... Читать далее