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Abstract:

The article examines the frontline destinies of Balkar poets and writers Kaisyn Kuliev, Kerim Otarov, Bert Gurtuev, Omar Etezov, Ibragim Mammeev, Adilgery Sottaev, Ramazan Gelyaev, Maxim Gettuev, Salikh Khochuev and other participants in the Great Patriotic War, many of whom, having a reservation, were among the volunteers sent to the front. The article highlights significant episodes of their combat biography, services to the Fatherland, and awards. Relying on narrative sources, the “geography of the feat” is outlined, which was accomplished not only on the battlefield. It is emphasized that the deportation of the Balkar people (1944–1957) to Central Asia and Kazakhstan made a fatal adjustment to the fates of the frontline writers. Balkar writers, as representatives of the exiled people, were destined to experience the bitter fate of special settlers after the war. Finding themselves in extremely difficult and humiliating conditions, and not lacking in civic courage, they made unprecedented attempts to restore historical justice, which was equal to a real feat. The work also focuses on literary creativity, in particular noting the thematic focus of the works of masters of artistic words created during the war and the post-war period.

Keywords: the Great Patriotic War, Balkar writers — frontline soldiers, creativity, theme of war, geography of the feat.