Mikhail Sinelnikov awarded the Gold Medal of the International Organization of Turkic Cultures "TURKSOY"

Head of the School of Poetry named after. Valeria Bryusov, member of the Business Communications Council of the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly Mikhail Sinelnikov was awarded the gold medal of the International Organization of Turkic Cultures "TURKSOY".

The presentation took place at the Embassy of Kyrgyzstan in Moscow. The award was presented by Kanybek Osmonaliev, a physicist and Chairman of the National Commission on State Language and Language Policy under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic.

The international organization TURKSOY, which is called “UNESCO of the Turkic World”, was founded in 1993 as a result of an agreement between the ministers of culture of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and the Republic of Turkey. TURKSOY sees its task in promoting spiritual rapprochement and strengthening the fraternal unity of the Turkic peoples, in presenting Turkic culture to the world and transmitting its traditions to the next generations.

Every year TURKSOY organizes meetings of artists, opera festivals, literary congresses and other forums, which have already become a traditional platform for the exchange of experience among cultural and scientific figures of the Turkic world.

“Of course, in my work I have touched not only Turkic literature. It was also important for me to come into contact with Georgian, Armenian, Ossetian, Ingush, Chechen, Avar, Mongolian, Romanian, Hungarian, French, German, Arabic, Hebrew, Indian poetry, and the grandiose Persian-Tajik classics. And nothing saddens and hurts me so much as the incessant bitter strife of the peoples...

One way or another, the relationship between the Forest and the Steppe, the Slavic and Turkic worlds, is the main plot of Russian history and an eternal theme of Russian poetry.

Born in post-blockade, post-war Leningrad, I plunge into the depths of memory and find again and again that the first remembered sensations in my life belong to my early childhood spent in the Kyrgyz part of the multinational Fergana Valley. And Kyrgyzstan, which gave me friendship with its best poets, is my homeland," - said Mikhail Sinelnikov.