A memorial evening dedicated to the anniversary of Ingush people's poet Dzhamaldin Yandiev was held at the Lyazhgi Community Center.
Dzhamaldin Khamurzaevich Yandiev was born on October 15, 1916, in the village of Balta. He lost his mother at a young age and his father during the deportation. He began writing poetry while still in school and later headed the Writers' Union of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR. In 1944, he was deported to Central Asia, but even there he continued writing poetry—it was during those years that his most poignant lines about the war and his native land were written.
During his lifetime, the poet published 20 collections of poetry in Ingush and Russian. His works were translated into many languages of the USSR, and he himself translated Pushkin, Lermontov, and Mayakovsky into Ingush.
The most famous works include: "Believe!", "Mother," "Where I Was Born," "A Handful of Soil," "Tear," "Beat, Heart," "The Earth Burns and Cries," and "We Will Not Give Up Our Homeland." Many of these became folk songs—sung without notes because they came from the heart.