First All-Union Turkological Congress
Participants of the First All-Union Turkological Congress
General information
TypeAcademic conference
discipline = Turkology
Organization
First occurrence1926
Locations and dates
Palace of Turkic Culture26 February - 5 March 1926

The First All-Union Turkological Congress (Russian: Первый Всесоюзный тюркологический съезд; Azerbaijani: Birinci Türkoloji Qurultay) is the first Turkological Congress,[1] held from 26 February to 5 March 1926 in Baku, the capital of the Azerbaijan SSR.[2]

In August 1925, the Council of Peoples Commissars of the SSR decided to convene the All-Union Turkological Congress. The question of the congress was first raised and submitted to the government of the USSR by Azerbaijan a year earlier. The issue of allowing the writing in the Latin alphabet was raised at the 1st Azerbaijan Local History Congress, six months before the decision was made to convene the Turkological Congress by the USSR Government, by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and by the All-Union Association of Oriental Studies.[3]

With the decision of the Council of Peoples Commissars of the USSR, an Organizing Commission was formed to prepare the convocation of the congress. It included: S. Aghamalioglu (chairman), M. Pavlovich, H. Jabiyev, V. Bartold, A. Samoilovich, J. Korkmasov, G. Broydo, N. Tyuryakulov, Arthur Siefeldt-Simumägi, A. Fitrat, B. Choban-zade, N. Ashmarin, A. Odabash, Z. Navshirvanov, A. Baitursynov, A. Yusif-zade.[4]

The organizing commission was publishing "VESTNIK" on the pages of which announced about all the work carried out with regards to the preparation of the All-Union Turkological Congress. Central and regional scientists, as well as those from abroad, took part in the work of the congress. There were 111 people representing the scientific and public organizations of the Turkic-speaking republics and regions of the Soviet Union, and 20 representatives of the scientific world.[5] Vasily Bartold, Ilya Borozdin, Bekir Chobanzade, Mehmet Fuat Kopruluzade, Nicholas Poppe, Alexander Samoylovich, Sergei Oldenburg, Lev Shcherba and others held presentations. The resolution of the congress was presented by its co-chairman J. Korkmasov.[6]

The First All-Union Turkic Congress played an important role in the history of the Turkic studies development in the Soviet Union.[7][8] [9]

Already in 1928, the curtailment of the indigenisation policy was outlined, and at the end of the 1930s, during the Great Terror, many congress participants were accused of pan-Turkism, nationalism, counterrevolutionary activities, they were repressed, and died.[10] Among them were Alexander Samoilovich, Dzhelal Korkmasov, Bekir Chobanzade, Osman Aqçoqraqlı, Akhmet Baitursynov, Salman Mumtaz, Ruhulla Akhundov, Isidor Barakhov, Hanafi Zeynalli, Hikmet Dzhevdet-zade and many others.

On 28 April 1976, the Second Republican Conference of the Young Philologists was held on the topic "The current Issues of Turkmen Philology" at the Academy of Sciences of the Turkmen SSR Makhtumkuli Institute of Language and Literature. It was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the First Turkological Congress.[11]

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References

  1. ↑ Alexander Samoylovich (2005). Тюркское языкознание. Филология. Руника. Moscow: Восточная литература. p. 1020.
  2. ↑ "Birinci Türkoloji Qurultay türk xalqlarının mədəni həyatında müstəsna rol oynayıb" (in Azerbaijani). Azerbaijan State News Agency. April 15, 2016. Archived from the original on July 8, 2019. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
  3. ↑ Birinci Türkoloji Qurultay: Görünən və görünməyən tərəflər (PDF). Baku: Еlm vә tәhsil nәşriyyatı. 2016. p. 17. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-09-22.
  4. ↑ Möhsün Nağısoylu (March 7, 2016). "I Türkoloji Qurultay - tarixə düşmüş əlamətdar hadisə" (in Azerbaijani). 525-ci qəzet. Archived from the original on October 5, 2021. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
  5. ↑ Исаев М. И (1979). Языковое строительство в СССР: Процессы создания письменностей народов СССР. Moscow: Наука. p. 68.
  6. ↑ "First All-Union Turkological Congress. February 26 - March 5, 1926 Verbatim record.", Бакинский рабочий, Baku, 1926
  7. ↑ Кононов А. Н. (1980). Тюркское языкознание в СССР на современном этапе. Итоги и проблемы // Проблемы современной тюркологии: материалы II Всесоюзной тюркологической конференции 27-29 сентября 1976 г. Alma Ata: Наука Казахской ССР. p. 13.
  8. ↑ Frings, Andreas (2005). Соревнование моделей: татарская делегация на Тюркологическом съезде в Баку в 1926 г. ЭТНОГРАФИЧЕСКОЕ ОБОЗРЕНИЕ.
  9. ↑ Frings, Andreas (2009). Playing Moscow off against Kazan. Azerbaijan manoeuvering to Latinization in the Soviet Union. Ab Imperio.
  10. ↑ Adalet Tahirzade (2002). Salman Mümtaz (Tərcümeyi-hal oçerki). Bakı: Kür. p. 11.
  11. ↑ Вторая республиканская конференция молодых филологов / Известия Академии наук Туркменской ССР. Ashgabat: Ылым. 1976. p. 295.
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