Musa Cälil (pronounced Jaꞑalif: Musa Çəlil; Cyrillic: Муса Җәлил; full name: Musa Mostafa ulı Cälilev, Cyrillic: Муса Мостафа улы Җәлилев; Russian: Муса Джалиль, Муса Мустафович Залилов, Musa Dzhalil, Musa Mustafovich Zalilov, also anglicized as Mussa Jalil February 15, 1906 – August 25, 1944) was a Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter. He is the only poet of the Soviet Union who was simultaneously awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union award for his resistance fighting, and the Lenin Prize for having written The Moabit Notebooks; both the awards were awarded to him posthumously.
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15 February 1906 Mustafino, Orenburg Guberniya, Russian Empire
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Died |
25 August 1944 (aged 38) Plötzensee, Nazi Germany
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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