Bulach Tatu

Tatu Bulach (; ; 1902 – 1980) was an Avar communist revolutionary and Soviet politician. An important figure in the establishment of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, she was the first Komsomol woman in Dagestan.

Biography She was born in the village of Nizhneye Kazanishche in the family of an officer of the Imperial Russian Army. The family was poor, so Bulach had to work from the age of 13.

In the summer of 1915, when Tatu was 13 years old, her brother's friend Ullubiy Buynaksky came to visit their family. He became a frequent visitor to the Bulach family. After the October Revolution Buynaysky was arrested, and he corresponded with Bulach, who he also used to deliver letters by him to the outside world. In these hundreds of years old letters, against the backdrop of revolution and Russian Civil War, among the calls to fight to the bitter end, a tragic love story unfolds. During the civil war, Bulach was a supporter of the Red Army and participated in the establishment of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

In the spring of 1917, she became chairman of the Union of Revolutionary Muslim Youth, which united the student and working youth of the city.

In 1920, Bulach was elected chairman of the organizing bureau of the Komsomol for the preparation of a conference or congress of the Komsomol of Dagestan. In 1920-1921 she was elected a member of the Presidium of the Youth Council of the East, then she worked as a secretary of the Communist Party in Khasavyurt and Makhachkala.

In 1927 she graduated from the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, after which she worked as an intern-referent in the People's Commissariat for Foreign Trade of the State Trade Committee of the USSR. In 1955, accusations against Bulach were removed. In total she spent 16 years in prison, camps and exile.

On 31 December 1955, she was rehabilitated due to the lack of corpus delicti. On 31 December 1955, she was rehabilitated due to the lack of corpus delicti. She died in 1980 at the age of 78 and was buried in Makhachkala.