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Abselâm Islâmov
Abselâm Islâmov (Russian: Абселям Ислямов; 1 April 1907 — 1 December 1995) was a Crimean Tatar party worker, commissar, and journalist. For 25 years, he was the chief editor of the Crimean Tatar language[a] newspaper Lenin Bayrağı. For his work, he was awarded the title Honored Culture Worker of the Uzbek SSR. Early lifeIslâmov was born on 1 April 1907 in Tai-Vakuf village to an extremely poor Crimean Tatar family with many siblings.[3][4] His family rented land from a landowner to run a farm, and what little money they had leftover went to food for the family.[4] His parents and many of his siblings died in the famine of the 1920s,[4] and he survived because he lived in the Subhi Children's Home at the time.[3] He became a member of the Komsomol in 1923,[3] and in 1930 he was admitted to the Communist Party.[5] From 1929 to 1932 he attended the Frunze Pedagogical Institute of Crimea, which he graduated from with honors.[6] He entered the Red Army in 1935,[7] but until the start of the Great Patriotic War he did civilian work, working at the Higher Agricultural School and later the Institute for Mass Training of Activists.[6] Throughout the 1930s he did many jobs, being an instructor at a regional Komsomol committee,[2] the head of a department at the newspaper Qızıl Qırım, and worked at a pioneer youth magazine.[2] His career in the Communist Party steadily grew in the latter part of the 1930s: he became the head of the Crimean branch of the Institute for the Training of Party Activists, and in 1938 he became a member of the Crimean Regional Party Control Commission.[4] He was called up to the Red Army again in 1940,[8] when many other political workers were mobilized.[6] He taught economics at the Kachin Aviation School and was later sent to the Pavlograd Aviation School.[6] World War IIDuring the war, Islâmov was the head of the political department of the 220th Fighter Aviation Division, which later became the 1st Guards Fighter Aviation Division.[2][4] He was often praised by his commanders for his attentive work in educating pilots and journalism about the division.[9] He ended the war with the rank of major,[10] and was stationed in Dresden until 1946.[3] Life in exileFrom 1946 he lived in exile, he first lived in Samarkand, and worked as the head of the ideological department in the Samarkand Regional Party Committee.[11][3] Later he was given an apartment in Tashkent.[3] In 1957 he was charged with establishing the Crimean Tatar language newspaper[a] Lenin Bayrağı and the given the position of editor-in-chief of the newly restarted newspaper;[11] for 25 years, he was the chief editor of the newspaper.[4] He worked hard to maintain the peace between editorial staff, which was complicated by the fact that Sharof Rashidov would frequently send him letters from staff denouncing each other.[3] In addition to his work at the newspaper, he was elected as a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR.[5] In 1977 he was awarded the title of Honored Worker of Culture of Uzbekistan;[12] he retired in 1981 and died on 1 December 1995 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.[12] While he did not return to Crimea, his son Zemfir did move to Crimea after the fall of the Soviet Union.[13] Footnotes
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