left for Kazakhstan. It is considered that it was in 1864 during his trip to Kazakhstan that he takes part in aytis, a lyrical competition with a Kazakh poet called Kiz-Menesh. Compared with other contemporary folk genres of the region, aytis was particularly popular. In 1878 it was described in the Tashkent newspaper Turkistan walayati. According to the contents of one of Ajiniyaz’s poems he was 40 years old at that time: ... When there is wedding, you’ll wear red chapan, And burn from love in the fire of your beloved. I was born in a year of a sheep, now I am 40, Kiz-menesh, Will you marry me, clarifying the age! The years spent in Kazakhstan refer to the golden age of the poetic activity of Ajiniyaz. At this period he created a big number of his famous poems. Coming back to his native place Ajiniyaz opens schools in the villages «Bozataw», «Kamis buget», «Jetim uzak» for the children from poor families where he teaches them skills of grammar. Besides, till the end of his life – the poet died in 1874 − he keeps writing poems. Bozataw tragedy Ajiniyaz was not only one of the ideologists of the people’s rebellion but also an active participant of the Bozataw tragedy which like a serious injury had left an awful scar in the history and in minds of the Karakalpak people. The hard trial suffered by the native people bore Ajiniyaz’s famous poem Bozataw: Century of Land with nation, nation is with land, Grief is awaiting us, landless in exile. We won’t forget the pain, tribe will disappear You were our bread-winner, dear Bozataw. Heard, firing started out before sunrise, Slept as free before-woke up as a slaver, Hands were tied up-where is the struggle… Your son was captured suddenly, Bozataw. Honours Nukus State Pedagogical Institute named in the honour of Ajiniyaz. A monument of Ajiniyaz holding karakalpak national instrument "dutar" is established in Nukus, Uzbekistan, by Savitsky Museum References External links Ethnographic words in the works of poet-classic Ajiniyaz at East European Science Journal 1824 births 1878 deaths People from Karakalpakstan Uzbekistani male poets 19th-century Uzbekistani poets 19th-century male writers