Abselâm Islâmov (Russian: Абселям Ислямов; 1 April 1907 — 1 December 1995) was a Crimean Tatar party worker, commissar, and journalist.
For 25 years, he was the chief editor of the Crimean Tatar language[a] newspaper Lenin Bayrağı.
Islâmov was born on 1 April 1907 in Tai-Vakuf village to an extremely poor Crimean Tatar family with many siblings.
[4] His parents and many of his siblings died in the famine of the 1920s,[4] and he survived because he lived in the Subhi Children's Home at the time.
[6] Throughout the 1930s he did many jobs, being an instructor at a regional Komsomol committee,[2] the head of a department at the newspaper Qızıl Qırım, and worked at a pioneer youth magazine.