Sadriddin Ayni

Sadriddin Ayni, a Tajik intellectual who created poetry, literature, journalism, history, and lexicography, lived from 15 April 1878 to 15 July 1954. He is well-liked as one of the most significant authors in Tajikistan's history and the nation's national poet. He is also regarded as one of the most important historical figures in Tajikistan.

Sadriddin Aini belonged to the Jadids, a group of enlighteners. His journey into education begins when he actively participates in setting up the first new-method schools in Bukhara for Tajik children. He also creates textbooks, poetry, and stories for them, arguing for secular knowledge in opposition to traditional Muslim theology. He backed the emirate's revolution and the establishment of the Bukhara People's Soviet Republic in 1920. Ayni started working as a writer for the Samarkand-based division of the Tajik State Publishing House on June 15, 1926.

In 1934, at the All-Union Congress of Writers, he was elected to the Board of the Union of Writers of the USSR in addition to being elected to the Central Executive Committee of the Tajik Socialist Republic, which was established in 1929. S. Ayni was frequently chosen to serve as a council member for the cities of Dushanbe and Samarkand, as well as the Supreme Soviet of the Tajik SSR twice (1937, 1947). In 1940, S. Ayni received recognition for his outstanding contributions to the field of literary criticism by being named an Honored Scientist of the Tajik SSR.