Shaikhzada Babich

شايخزاده بابيتش

14 January 1895 CE · 17 Rajab 1312 AH† – 28 March 1919 CE · 26 Jumada II 1337 AH† †

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

Bashkir poet (1895–1919), a classic author of Bashkir national literature. Born at Asyanovo, son of the mahalla mullah who directed its madrasa, and formed at the Ğəliyə madrasa in Ufa, he was active in the Bashkir national movement as secretary of the Central Shuro, head of the Tulqın youth union and a war correspondent, and was murdered by a Red Army soldier in 1919, aged twenty-four.