Shabdar Osyp

Shabdar Osyp (Mari: Шабда́р О́сып, 27 March 1898 – 11 November 1937) was a Mari author.

He was born as Iosif Arkhipovich Shabdarov (Russian: Иóсиф Архи́пович Шабдáров) in the village of Malaya Luzhala in Mari El.[1]

He started writing poetry in 1918. He studied at a pedagogical college in Kazan.[2]

Like most of the Mari intelligentsia at the time, he became a victim of stalinism and was executed in Yoshkar-Ola on 11 November 1937. He was rehabilitated posthumously.

References

  1. ^ Chernykh, Semen (1975). Осыпь Шабдар и его традиции (in Russian). Марийское книжное изд-во. p. 18. Retrieved 13 March 2026.
  2. ^ История татарской советской литературы (in Russian). Изд-во "Наука". 1965. p. 220. Retrieved 13 March 2026.