On September 4, 2023, a monument honoring the Uzbek poet Usman Nasir was revealed in Mariinsk, Kemerovo Oblast, located in the Russian Federation. Konstantin Zenic was the sculptor responsible for creating the monument, according to the Union of Writers of Uzbekistan.
A delegation from Uzbekistan visited the Mariinsk forest cemetery, where the poet was laid to rest in the victims of repression graveyard. The group read Surahs from the Qur'an and placed flowers on Nasir's grave.
The event was attended by various individuals, including Sergey Tsivilev, the Governor of the Kemerovo region, Botir Asadov, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Uzbekistan to Russia, Sirojiddin Sayyid, the Chairman of the Union of Writers of Uzbekistan and People's Poet of Uzbekistan, Uzbek students studying in Novosibirsk, compatriots living abroad, local artists, and members of the general public from Mariinsk, Kemerovo region.
Usman Nasir was born in the Namangan region on November 13, 1912. He briefly studied at the Screenwriting Faculty of the Institute of Cinematography in Moscow from 1929 to 1930 and at the Faculty of Language and Literature of the Samarkand Alisher Navoi State University from 1933 to 1934.
Usman Nasir authored several poetry collections, including "Yuroq" (Heart) in 1935 and "Mehrim" (My Love) in 1936. He also wrote the play "Atlas" in 1935, which was once staged in an amateur theater. Additionally, Nasir translated Alexander Pushkin's poem "The Fountain of Bakhchisarai" and Mikhail Lermontov's poem "Demon" into Uzbek.
Nasir was arrested on July 13, 1937, as an "enemy of the people" and was sent to the Magadan and Kemerovo regions' camps, where he passed away on March 9, 1944.
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