More than three years ago there was a collection of verses of Lenur Ibraimov «to break off the heart on a part». To this event my response, brought has been devoted your attention. Then it hasn’t been published anywhere.

This book was long-awaited and became unexpected for many. It is long-awaited, because verses of untimely deceased Lenur Ibraimov continue to remain actual and today as an example and means of patriotic education. It is unexpected, first of all, for those who has learned for the first time about the Poet, taking in hands his collection.

Despite set of publications about Lenur Ibraimov, a phenomenon of his creativity remains not studied properly. Personally I could learn and pay attention to the poet and his creativity after publication by Yury Osmanov as an epigraph to a literary tabloid of «Areket» (01.10. 1992г.) next lines:

After all life — struggle! Don’t wait protection from the sky.
Suffer, struggle and behind itself conduct.
The Native land is necessary to us, as in hunger a chunk of bread,
As heart uneasy in a breast!

In the same place, in the editorial, L.Ibraimov’s laconic estimation as «perhaps, unique rather talented poet from the Crimean Tatars writing and writing in Russian», J.Osmanov given to him.

Yury Bekirovich remembered that the manuscript of a poem of Lenur Ibragimov «After all life — struggle» has been attached to his «criminal case» after a search «somewhere in Chirchik or Tashkent».

This poem has appeared as the answer to the hypocritical Decree of Presidium of the Supreme body of the USSR 1967 «About Tatars, before living in Crimea», being a classical example of double standards in the national policy the correcting country of party. And familiarizing of these verses with «criminal case» is explainable — after all they were regarded by retaliatory bodies as the ideological weapon subjected to repression of the Crimean Tatar people.

The poetry of Lenur Ibraimov has embodied all basic sides of sacred attitude — love to the native earth and the people.

He feels the love and as memoirs on the embodiments, recovering images and pictures of the heroic past of our ancestors.

It is remarkable that L.Ibraimov has really fallen in love with the native earth after has got acquainted with the expelled people, with his avant-guard opening a way home in the conditions of monstrous oppression and reprisals of the authorities. He has been convinced that his people will break all barriers and will come back in native land. It is remarkable that in eight months Yury Osmanov in prison will express the same conviction and will write same lines. Re-reading L.Ibraimov’s verses, more and more you open depth and riches of his attitude — divine gift of the poet — the founder of images.
He who has grown in the country of official atheism, addresses at Supreme Which can’t visually present but Which recognizes as the Beginning of all beginnings: «… But now I know well: You create this world.

Lenur Ibraimov recognizing God by the Father of a universe and a source of the inspiration («Velene feeling unearthly, / I heart-felt sing songs…»), esteems the Earth, as great and live Mater («I — an earth handful, I — a native land fruit»). He realizes the eternity and immortality that is shown in such lines.

I have tried to show some the basic sides of a pure crystal of poetry of Lenur Ibraimov: his love and devoted service to the people and the native earth, his comprehension own I and the Supreme Creator, his understanding of mission of Poetry and the Poet.

It only strokes to a unique portrait of the Person, only a sketch-sketch of a panoramic picture of its consciousness shown in poetic creativity by Lenur Ibraimov.

Asan HURSHUTOV,

Yalta