Personalities: Zaur Naloev | Нало Заур (1928-2012)

[Circassian World Newsletter]

This article is devoted to one of the brightest personalities of not only Kabardian but the whole Adyghe nation - to Zaur Magomedovich Naloev. He is a scholar-enlightener who little by little gathered and restored the lost pages of his native (Kabardian) folklore in auls and villages of the  three Adyghe republics. Z. Naloev’s creativity is ranked with the great classics of Adyghe literature - Ali Shogentsukov and Alim Keshokov.

ZAUR NALOEV – AN OUTSTANDING ADYGHE ENLIGHTENER OF THE ХХTH CENTURY

by Zera Hachimovna Bakova and Irina Habalovna Badzova
Department of Literature and Folklore of Northern Caucasia Peoples Kabardino-Balkaria State University named after H. M. Berbekov

Бзэр псалъэ къудейкъым, ар гупсысэкӀэщ, дуней тетыкӀэщ
(The Adyghe language is not just words, it is a characteristic way of speaking. Together with the words,  we need to convey that way of speaking). -- Zaur Naloyev.

Zaur Naloev (Circassian: Нало Заур) was born in 1928 in the village of Starii Uruh. He graduated from the Kabardian State Pedagogical Institute, where he also gave lectures on the history of Kabardian literature and Adyghe folklore.

Read more: http://circassianworld.com/circassians/personalities/1713-zaur-naloev-1928-2012 

This article was published by Gramota and is translated from Russian.