Georgiy Basharin

Basharin was born in Sylan village, in the Yakutsk Oblast of the Russian Empire (present-day Churapchinsky District, Sakha, Russia), in a large poor peasant family.

He was introduced to literacy at the age of 17 during the illiteracy eradication campaign initiated by the Soviet state.

[1] On September 10, 1943, he successfully defended his dissertation (Russian: кандидатская диссертация) titled "The Three Yakut Realists-Enlighteners",[2] which analyzed the lives and work of the founders of the Sakha national literature—Alexey Kulakovsky, Anempodist Sofronov, and Nikolay Neustroev.

Basharin's dissertation, published as a separate book in 1944, became a scholarly triumph over erroneous political accusations of the founders and classics of Sakha literature.

The history of its appearance and the political struggle that unfolded around it became the example of courage, fight for the historical truth and decency, defense of the national pride of the Sakha people and their best representatives.