Biography of the Kabardian writer

Alim Keshokov. The poet, the front -line soldier, the conscience of the people for the annual from the birth of the outstanding Kabardian writer Pavel Sergeyev, the author is not as many as folk artists or folk artists, but reverence for them is no less, or even more reverent. Because at the origins of all the main in life there is a weighty, important and necessary word. The word of the sage, the ruler of the Duma, the moral tuning fork of society.

Everyone knows folk poets and writers, everyone is proud of them. How, for example, to imagine Dagestanis without Rasul Gamzatov, Balkars without Kaisyn Kuliev, Ingush without Idris Bazorkin? Each ethnic group of the North Caucasus is proud of its masters of the word, a living conscience of the people. And it is very important that their talent rose over the national framework, becoming value to all of Russia.

It was precisely such intellectual and moral authority that the outstanding Kabardian writer Alim Keshokov, a national poet, writer, publicist and public figure, who left a significant literary heritage, which is the enduring value of our country. Alim Pshemakhovich was born on July 22 in the village of Shalushka, now the Chegemsky district of Kabardino-Balkaria and already in childhood began to write poetry.

The tendency to literary creativity was expressed in choosing a profession: after graduating from the philological department of the Pedagogical Institute in Vladikavkaz, he worked as a teacher of the Kabardian language and literature, taught Russian language and literature at the Kabardian pedagogical work faculty. Then he entered graduate school in Moscow, became the director of the Kabardino-Balkarian Research Institute of Local Lore in Nalchik.

Under his editorship in the year the book “Nart Tales” was published. But all dreams and plans were changed by the war. During the battles, Alim Keshokov proved himself as a patriot and a courageous warrior. During the Great Patriotic War, he served as a personnel officer in the Kabardino-Balkarian Cavalry Division, was wounded during the battle of Stalingrad. After discharge from the hospital, he participated in the liberation of Donbass, Zaporozhye, Melitopol, Crimea, and the Baltic states.

Awarded with high orders and medals of the Fatherland. Met the end of the war with the rank of major. Then he was in responsible party, government and creative positions. And this activity went far beyond the borders of the native republic. Alim Keshokov waged active public work for many years, was a deputy of various levels of power. But this did not prevent him from creating!

Poems and poems, prose and journalism brought Keshokov the love of readers and a high assessment of the homeland.

Describing poems and prose of the master is an ungrateful work. To feel the beauty and wisdom of the author’s word, they must be read yourself. The work of Alim Keshokov deserves this in full: thin, smart, deep and, without exaggeration, at all times. Permeated with love for the homeland - small and great. The last years of his life, Alim Pshemakhovich lived in Moscow, where he died on January 29.

However, after his death, he returned home: he was buried in the family cemetery in the village of Shalushka near Nalchik. He was in fact: the memory of Keshokov and gratitude to him will always live in the hearts of compatriots. And this is true, because the sincere word of the great master and man is an enduring value.