(KZN.RU,
April 26). Today is the 131st birth anniversary of the great Tatar poet
Gabdulla Tukay. On this occasion, Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of the RT,
laid flowers at the monument to the writer in the park named after G. Tukay in
Kazan.
Also,
Mintimer Shaimiev, the State Counselor of the RT, Farid Mukhametshin, the
chairman of the State Council of the RT, Asgat Safarov, the head of the Office
of the President of the RT, Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, members of the
Government of the RT, heads of ministries and departments of the RT, deputies
of the republican parliament, and art workers of Tatarstan honored the memory
of the Tatar classic.
Today, the
solemn ceremony of awarding laureates of the State Prize of the RT named after
Gabdulla Tukay will take place at the Tatar Academic State Opera and Ballet
Theater named after Musa Jalil, reports the Tatarstan Government Portal.