INVESTIGATIVE CASE № 12493 - GAZIZ SALIKHOVICH GUBAIDULLIN. WHAT WERE ACCUSED THE SCIENTIST TURKOLOGIST?
The article is the accompanying text of the presentation of documents from the investigation case No. 12493 of the NKVD of the Azerbaijan SSR, on charges the famous scientist-Turkologist Gaziz Salikhovich Gubaidullin. The documents stored in the archives of the security Service of Azerbaijan are presented to the scientific community for the first time, revealing many unknown facts from the life and scientific activities of Gubaidullin, testify to the tragic fate of the scientist who became a victim of Stalin’s repressions. If we remove the far-fetched “counter-revolutionary component”, Gubaydullin’s detailed “story” about his trips, meetings and conversations taking place in reality, allow us to create a General picture of the atmosphere of those times when great scientists, full of ideas and hopes, laid the foundations of Soviet Oriental studies-Turkology. Casually accusations and confessions, traces also possible critical attitude of prominent representatives of the Turkic peoples - Tatar, Azerbaijani, Uzbek intellectuals to some negative processes taking place in society, in particular in the field of national and language policy of the Soviet state.