Guinan Khairy
Bashkir poet, writer and playwright (1903–1938)

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.
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