Dmitry Gulia

The silver coin "Dmitry Gulia" of 10 apsars denomination of the series “Outstanding Personalities of Abkhazia”.

Dmitry Gulia (Abkhaz: Дырмит Иасыф-иҧа Гәлиа; 9 February 1874 – 7 April 1960) was an Abkhazian Soviet writer and poet, considered to be one of the founders of Abkhaz literature.

Dmitry Iosifovich Gulia was born in the village of Uarcha in the modern Gulripsh District of Abkhazia to a peasant family. Gulia studied at a teacher seminary in the city of Gori. In 1892 together with Konstantin Machavariani he compiled Abkhaz alphabet based on Cyrillic characters. In his poetry collection (1912) the poet expressed the hopes of Abkhaz people for the beautiful future and hatred towards any injustice. In 1921 Gulia organized and headed the first Abkhaz theater group. He was an editor of the first Abkhaz newspaper Apsny (Abkhazia). His diverse activities reached the culmination in the Soviet times. His lyrics are penetrated with the pathos of creation, friendship, and unity of nations (epics Song about Abkhazia, 1940, Autumn in the Countryside, 1946, etc.). Gulia wrote the first Abkhaz novella, Under Someone Else's Sky (1919). In the novel Kamachich (1940), he depicted the life of Abkhazians during the czarism and joyless destiny of a woman. Gulia's role in Abkhaz culture development is enormous. He authored works on language, history, and ethnography of the Abkhaz, chrestomathies and textbooks. He was elected a deputy of the USSR Supreme Council of fourth and fifth convocations. He was awarded the Order of Lenin. He held in the newspaper Apsny, that he created, a weekly rubric about abkhazian dominoes.

Dmitry Gulia died on April 7, 1960 in the village of Agudzera in Abkhazia and was buried in the city of Sukhumi.

Abkhazia 2009 Dmitry Gulia Silver
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in the upper central part, on the smooth field - the relief picture of the State Emblem of the Republic of Abkhazia, under it - the inscription in Abkhaz “Аҧсны Абанк”(The Bank of Abkhazia). The semicircular inscriptions above the State Emblem indicate the denomination of the coin “10 ҦСАРК” (10 APSARS). Along the rim to the left - the indication of the metal sign in accordance with the D.I.Mendeleyev Periodic System of Elements, the fineness and fine precious metal content, to the right - the mint trade mark. In the lower part of the coin, on the matted field and raised small print inscriptions of five lines “Аҧсны Абанк” - the year of mintage "2009".
Reverse: 
The reverse: the portrait of the founder of Abkhaz literature Dmitry Josephovich Gulia, to the left – the graphic picture of the elements of the first Abkhaz alphabet, lower –the dates in two lines "1874" and "1960". Under the portrait from the left to the right– the inscription in Abkhaz " Дырмит Гәлиа " (Dyrmit Gulia).
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Dmitry Gulia
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Catalog ID: 
AB4CM1
Value: 
€80
Mintage: 
1000
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0.925
Weight: 
33.94g
Diameter: 
39mm
Thickness: 
3.3mm
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