Kirghizia writer and poet
Tugelbay SYDYKBEKOV, USSR Kirghizia writer and poet. Full member, Kirghizia Academy of Sciences, since 1954; board member, USSR Union of Writers, since 1959; Presidium member, Kirghizia Union of Writers; member, Committee Lenin Prizes for Literature and Art, USSR Council of Ministers, since 1960. Order of Lenin; Order of Red Banner of Labor, 1958; Stalin Prize, 1949.
Background
SYDYKBEKOV, Tugelbay was born in 1912 in Ken-Su, Kirghizia.
Career
Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1954 convocation. 1956 attended Conference of Writers of AfroAsian Countries. Member, Soviet Committee the Defense of Peace.
1933 first work published.