Ennan Memutovich Alimov (Russian: Эннан Мемутович Алимов; 1912–1941) was a Crimean Tatar writer and artist.
Ennan Alimov was born in 1912 to a Crimean Tatar family in the village of Cheremisovka [ru], near Belogorsk (now Bilohirsk).
After the studio was transformed into the Crimean Art School [ru], Alimov served as its director from July 1938 to September 1941.
[3] Reproductions of his paintings Bagydzhy kyzlar ("Girls-growers"), Ormanda tan ("Dawn in the forest"), and Kaytarma oynagyan kyz ("Girl dancing haitarma") were published between 1933 and 1936 in Yash Kuvet and Komsomolskaya Pravda.
The main character of the story "The Turtle Dove Flaps Her Wings" was based on his lover Emine Smedlyaeva[3] and discussed the first love of a teenager with descriptions of her in comparison to rain and the colors of a forest.