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Djalil (Джалиль) Musa
(1906—1944)

Musa Djalil was a Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter. Musa Djalil was born Musa Mostafa ulı Cälilov in Mostafa, a village in the Orenburg guberniya. He began publishing poems as a teenager and became a member of the Communist Party. After studying literature in Moscow, he worked as a playwright at the Tatar State Opera in Kazan.

In 1935, the first Russian translations of his poems were published and in 1940, he became the chairman of the Tatar Literary Association. To this day he is regarded as one of the most significant authors in the Tatar language.

After Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Musa Djalil was conscripted and served as a political officer and war correspondent. In June 1942, he was seriously wounded and captured. He later joined the Wehrmacht propaganda unit for the Legion İdel-Ural, which consisted mainly of Tatars and Bashkirs, under the false name Ğömärov. There he organized a secret group which undertook various sabotage and subversive activities against the German invaders.

In August 1943, he was arrested with his comrades and sent to Moabit Prison in Berlin. He was sentenced to death on February 12, 1944 and guillotined at Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, on August 25.

Musa Djalil’s writings were preserved by the Tatars Ğabbas Şäripov and Niğmät Teregulov and the Belgian André Timmermans. They were published as two books under the title «Moabit Notebook». Cälil's widow Äminä Zälälova gave the originals to the National Museum of Tatarstan for safekeeping.

USSR, 1959, Musa Djalil

USSR, 1966, Musa Djalil

Russia, 2006.02.15, Ekaterinburg. Musa Djalil