Ymär Sali

Ymär Sali (né Alautdinoff - Russian: Умяр Аляутдинов, romanized: Umyar Alyautdinov; Mishar Dialect: "Ümär", Literary Tatar: Гомәр Сәли / Галәветдин, Ğomər Səli / Ğaləwetdin; February 5, 1876 - August 12, 1951) was a Tatar entrepreneur in the city of Tampere, Finland.

Sali is also remembered as someone who helped fellow Mishar Tatars moving to Finland and the ones who settled in Saint Petersburg.

Ymär Sali (né Alautdinoff) was born in the Tatar village of Aktuk, in the Russian Empire's Nizhny Novgorod Governorate.

[1] Sali has been named as a key figure in helping Mishar merchants moving from Saint Petersburg to Finland as well as ones who stayed in the city.

In 1930, with the help of his stepsister Meryam (mother of artist Aisa Hakimcan[9]), fellow villagers Yarulla Sadretdin, Andercan Zainetdin and Dinmuhammed Ainetdin, Sali tried to bring theologian Musa Bigiev into Finland.

The biological child of the Sali's, Abdul-Kayum died young in Leningrad and his son, their grandchild Hasan, disappeared during World War II.

[1] When Sali passed away in 1951, the Tatar-born Turkish scientist-writer Lebib Karan (father of actress Lale Oraloğlu) sent his condolences from Istanbul to Tampere in the form of a poem.

Ymär Salinıñ ülüı yara açtı yöreklerde, bik küp tatar kaygıradır yakında hem yıraklarda, kaygırabız anıñ öçın kürgen, işıtkennerıbız.

Sali with his wife and their foster children Radife and Leyle.