The city holiday took place on the embankment of Semipalatinka, the tributary of the Irtysh  river.

The monument to a genius  young man was established in May 2016,  here, under fluffy pines, from where from the hillside you can see a  silver ribbon of the river. Tukai  lived only 26 years, the world in his face acquired and too quickly lost one of the greatest poets of all time.

The Tatar school of arts,  Association “Priirtysh Union of Tatars and Bashkir” Hak “, the Literary-Memorial Museum  after  F.M. Dostoevsky, collectives of the Tatar folk ensembles “Eastlek”, “Ilam”, “Irtysh Monary”.

Listen to the story of life, poems and songs on the poetry of Tukai   students of the Semei College of Radio Engineering and Communications and the University after  Shakarim  were invited.

As guests of honor to Tukay  Gabdulgaz Akhmerov and Rashid Hasanov  came.

91-year-old participant of the Great Patriotic War, one of the founders of the Tatar Social Center of Semei, an order-bearer and honorary citizen of Semipalatinsk Gaziz Abykh Akhmerov addressed the audience with commencement  address: “Get the best from literature. Great works, in whatever language they were written, teach the main thing – to be a Man. ”

Aksakal was supported by the 85-year-old worker of the rear, a member of the presidium of the Council of the Tatar Social Center of Semei  Rashida apa Hasanova. She said that anyone may equal  on Gabdulla Tukai who   wants to live on the Earth not in vain, to serve his people, leave a trace and a good memory of himself in the hearts of people.

The holiday ended with the performance of the anthem “Tugan Tel.” The participants of the meeting with the poet’s  creativity left an airy, springy, bright impression – this is how the poems of the author of “Shurale”,  and the songs   by  Gabdulkhak Akhunzhanov, written on the lyrics of Tukai,  sounded.

Victoria Kuptsova, Semei