Monument to the poet-hero Musa Jalil

Musa Jalil (Musa Mustafovich Zalilov (Jalilov) was born on February 15, 1906 in the village of Mustafino, Orenburg province (now the village of Mustafino, Sharlyk district, Orenburg Region) - died on August 25, 1944 in Berlin) was a Tatar Soviet poet, Hero of the Soviet Union (1956), Winner of the Lenin Prize (posthumously, 1957). In Orenburg, Musa Jalil studied at the "Khusainiya" madrasah and worked as an instructor at the Orenburg Gubernatorial Komsomol Committee. During the Great Patriotic War, Musa Jalil was captured by the Germans. In the concentration camp, Jalil continued to write poetry, he wrote at least 125 poems in total, which were transferred to his homeland by his cellmate after the war. In 1957, Musa Jalil was posthumously awarded the Lenin Prize by the Committee for Lenin and State Prizes in Literature and Art for his cycle of poems "The Moabit Notebook". In 1968, the film "The Moabite Notebook" was shot about the poet.

The monument to the "Poet-Hero Musa Jalil" was opened on June 22, 1996 to mark the 90th anniversary of his birth. It is located in the north-western part of the "April 4th" park. The author is the Kazan sculptor Kadym Zalitov. The monument to Jalil appeared in Orenburg five months after the stone was laid thanks to the combined efforts of the government of Tatarstan, the administrations of Kazan and Orenburg, and donations from people of different nationalities. The authorities of Tatarstan and its capital took most of the costs of constructing the monument - casting it from bronze (it weighs about one and a half tons). The monument was cast at one of the factories in Tatarstan. The author's fee was paid from the budget of Orenburg, the arrangement of the alley, the transportation of materials and the sculpture itself, and the installation were paid. The right to unveil the monument was granted to the poet's sister Khadicha Zalilova. The poet sits with his legs slightly crossed, his left hand on his knee, his right hand at his hip. He is dressed in a jacket, with a scarf casually draped around his neck. The head is turned towards people passing by.
The expression on his face is calm, friendly, and a slight smile freezes on his lips.