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Guinan Khairy

Bashkir poet, writer and playwright (1903–1938)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ4494828 ↗
Source-derived summary

Guinan Khairy (Bashkir: Ғайнан Хәйри; 15 June 1903 - 16 October 1938) was a Bashkir poet, writer and playwright.

Biography

Khairy attended a Madrasa, and after graduation, attended the Orenburg Bashkir Pedagogical College for higher education. In 1923, while a student at the pedagogical college, he wrote and published his first poems in 1923.

In 1927 he worked as an editor of the newspaper Bashkortostan yeshtere (Youth of Bashkortostan).

In 1937, he was arrested for views on the protection of the people. He was rehabilitated posthumously, only in the late 1990s.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Guinan Khairy” is bashkir poet, writer and playwright (1903–1938). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Guinan, Khairy and Bashkir, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1903, 1938, 1923, 1927—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1903-06-15. For this dossier, Guinan, Khairy and Bashkir is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “bashkir poet, writer and playwright (1903–1938)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4494828. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1903, 1938, 1923 and 1927.

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This entry incorporates text from “Guinan Khairy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.