2025. no 1. Ismail Kerimov

A.S. Aivazov in search of ways to open the newspaper “Kyrym Sedasi’’ (“Voice of Crimea”) (1908–1909)

Ismail Kerimov
Fevzi Yakubov Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University;
Marjani Institute of History of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences

Abstract. The famous Crimean Tatar writer, publicist, politician and public figure Asan Sabri Aivazov (1878–1938), after the tsarist secret police closed the Karasuvbazar newspaper “Vetan khadimi” (“Servant of the Fatherland”) in May 1908, directed all his efforts to opening a new newspaper called “Kyrym Sedasi” (“Voice of Crimea”). His correspondence with officials of the Tauride Governor’s office and personally with the governor was deposited as a series of documents in file no. 663 (fund 26, inventory no. 3) of the State Archives of the Republic of Crimea (SARC). It is these and a number of other materials and documents that formed the basis of the article, which attempts to briefly reveal the activities of A.S. Aivazov, associated with Crimean Tatar periodicals of the early twentieth century.

Keywords: A.S. Aivazov, Crimean Tatar periodicals, newspaper “Kyrym Sedasi” (“Voice of Crimea”), newspaper “Vetan khadimi” (“Servant of the Fatherland”).

For citation: Kerimov I.A. A.S. Aivazov in search of ways to open the newspaper “Kyrym Sedasi” (“Voice of Crimea”) (1908–1909). Krymskoe istoricheskoe obozrenie = Crimean Historical Review. 2025, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 155–163. DOI: 10.22378/kio.2025.1.155-163 (In Crimean Tatar)

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About the author: Ismail A. Kerimov – Dr. Sci. (Philology), Professor, Director of the Scientific Research Institute of the Crimean Tatar philology, history and culture of the Crimea ethnic groups, Fevzi Yakubov Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University (8, Uchebnyy lane, Simferopol 295015, Russian Federation); Leading Research Fellow of the Crimean Scientific Center, Marjani Institute of History of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences (7, Baturin Str., Kazan 420111, Russian Federation); alimes@mail.ru