Ilya Semyonovich Tuktash (Russian: Илья Семёнович Тукташ), known in his native language as İlle Tuktaş (Chuvash: Илле Тукташ), was a Soviet Chuvash writer and poet.
[1] Ille Tuktash was born in 1907 in the village of Bolshiye Toktashi, in the Alikovsky District of the Chuvash Republic.
He was the author of the collections Verses (1930) and The Wind of the October (1932), as well as short stories and essays.
Tuktash translated into Chuvash The Tale of Igor's Campaign (with I. Ivnik), M. A. Sholokhov's The Quiet Don (book 1), and the short stories of M. Gorky.
Tuktash created a genre of lyrical poetry including "Grow, Motherland, Strengthen" (Ӳс, ҫӗршыв, хӑватлан, Us, sjörskyv, håvatlan), "White Pidgeon" (Шурӑ кӑвакарчӑн, Skorå kåvakartjån), and "O Motherland" (Тӑван ҫӗршыв, Tåvan sjörskyv).