Aspects of studying T. Smetanin’s creative heritage

Abstract

The study of T. Smetanin’s writings has begun in the 1970s since N. Z. Kopyrin’s monograph ‘Timofei Smetanin: Life and Work’ (1976) and has continued to the current day. The interest to the works of the versatilely talented writer does not disappear. Timofei Egorovich Smetanin (1919-1947) lived a short life, he died only at the age of 27, but he was able to keep a rich creative heritage. Т. Smetanin was successfully writing in diversity genres of fiction literature. He was known as children’s book writer, frontline poet, prose writer and screenwriter. The study of his work becomes relevant not only in the context of the 105th anniversary of the writer’s birth and the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, but in order to create a complete picture of the history and development of Yakut literature, and the contribution of the talented writer into it. The purpose of the research is to reveal the contribution of Timofei Smetanin to the development of Yakut literature. T. Smetanin’s writings had huge importance for Yakut readers and inspired the martial spirit of Yakut soldiers. On his works several generations of children were raised, and today his works are still alive. He created his own specific writing style - it includes romantic images, easy syllable, humorous narration and optimistic pathos.