Nikolai Filippovich Ilbekov ( Chuvash: Микулай Илпек ''Mikulai Ilpek'') (1915 May 19, Trekhizb-Shemursha,

Buinsky Uyezd Buinsky Uyezd (''Буинский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the Simbirsk Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the northern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Buinsk, Republic of Tatarstan, Buinsk ...

Simbirsk Governorate Simbirsk Governorate () was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 to 1928. Its administrative center was in the city of Simbirsk, renamed Ulyanovsk in 1924 (likewis ...

– 1981 April 12,

Cheboksary Cheboksary is the capital city of Chuvashia, Russia. It is a port on the Volga River. Geography The city is located in the Volga Upland region and stands on the shore of the Cheboksary Reservoir. Its area is .Resolution #2083 The satellite city ...

) was a Chuvash prose writer. Of his more than twenty books, the most significant is the novel ''Black Bread'' (''Хура ҫӑкӑр''), published 1958–1961. ''Black Bread'' depicts the pre-revolutionary life of the Chuvash people, the revolutionary events of 1905–1907, and the growth of self-consciousness of the Chuvash and

Tatars Tatars ( )Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary are a group of Turkic peoples across Eas ...

Life

Ilbekov worked as a senior editor of the Committee for Radio Communications and Broadcasting under the Council of People's Commissars of the

Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic The Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union. It occupied about along the east bank of the Volga River, about west of the river's confluence with the Kama River and so ...

, as the senior editor of the Chuvash publishing house, as the executive secretary of the board of the Writers' Union of Chuvashia. He wrote short stories, novels, articles about other Chuvash writers, and translated the classics of Russian and foreign literature into the

Chuvash language Chuvash ( , ; , , ) is a Turkic languages, Turkic language spoken in European Russia, primarily in the Chuvashia, Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur languages, Oghur branch of Turkic languages ...

. Ilbekov was awarded the honorary title of People's Writer of the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. A street in the center of Cheboksary is named after him.

External links

''Black Bread'' at Chuvash.org
(in Chuvash) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ilbekov, Nikolai 1915 births 1981 deaths People from Chuvashia Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the Order of the Red Star Chuvash writers Soviet male writers Soviet war correspondents