Khusainov Akhmetov Biography

At the age of twelve, he became the main breadwinner in the house. He took up any work and managed to accumulate 5 rubles. It was with this amount that the diligent young man began his own enterprise in trade in petty goods and raw materials in Orenburg, to which he later attracted his brothers Mahmud-Gani-together they created the company Akhmet Husainov and his brothers, which carried out trade and intermediary operations between European Russia and Central Asia.

Moreover, the brothers tried to distribute the main areas of activity among themselves. So, if the Gabdelgani controlled Turkish the sales markets, Mahmud disposed of the company's affairs in the Orenburg region, then Khusinov saved cattle, raw materials, camel and sheep wool acquired at the lowest prices in Turkestan, at the largest fairs N. Novgorod, Moscow, Kazan and other cities.

Here he purchased industrial goods at wholesale prices and directed them to the brothers for sale or exchange for livestock products and raw materials for textile production. Playing a significant difference in prices for certain goods in different regions, entrepreneurs received triple and more profit. To the city of Khusainov, having earned capital at 80 rubles. Five years later, they brought their fortune to rub.

During this period, successful businessmen opened a number of shops and trading warehouses in the provincial center. Gradually, they managed to significantly expand the economic geography of the company, entering European markets and concluding transactions with merchants of Berlin and Paris. In the city of Khusainov, they were transferred from the Seitov bourgeois to the Orenburg first guild merchants.

For several decades of joint activities, the brothers, having created a successful company with branches in many large shopping centers in Russia, as well as abroad, earned almost four million rubles. The Khusainovs gained the greatest fame in the Tatar world of Russia not so much thanks to wealth as generous and focused charity. Being deeply believers Muslims, they paid special attention to the support of the confessional institutions of Tatar society - mosque and madrassas.

At the same time, the Orenburg merchants, like many other representatives of the progressive bourgeoisie, clearly realized the urgent need for indigenous reforms in all areas of national life, and primarily in the public education system. In them, they saw not only a strict guarantee from missionary attacks of the state, but also the possibility of an early introduction to the achievements of world civilization without loss of national and religious identity for the Muslims of Russia.

Akhmet-Bai Khusainov, who did not master the elementary skills of reading and writing in the walls of the Kadimist Mekteb, but, despite this, who managed to put together a giant state, of course, saw the main reason for popular troubles, poverty and ignorance in the old-election orders that reigned in the then confessional school. He repeated more than once that a worthy education would help him achieve even more high -profile successes in the commercial field.

The Khusainovs consciously and purposefully financed precisely Jadid educational institutions, paid for the work of progressively thinking mudarris and mugallims throughout the country, did not spare funds for the construction of school buildings, and the publication of necessary educational literature.

At the initiative of Akhmet-Bay in Khusainov, he moved to permanent residence in Kazan, where he declared his capital in the first guild and settled in a magnificent mansion on the embankment of the boar of ul. Marjani, in Kazan, up to his death in Akhmet-Bai, continued to actively engage in charity, supporting all city new-mixed schools, especially the Muhammadia Madrasah, and the Muslim charitable society.

As R. Fakhretdin wrote: “For 10 years spent in Kazan, he, allocating 3 or more rubles from each income. So, in the city of Khusainov’s largest vacation in Nizhny Novgorod, there was a “two-light hotel” at the Nizhny Novgorod Fair, her vacuum status was proclaimed in the city of Akhmet-Bai Khusainov was a vowel of the Kazan City Duma. At the end of his life, he made an unprecedented charitable act - he bequeathed to the needs of national education for almost half a million rubles enclosed in vacuum property.

In addition to fixing the retributions traditional for a Muslim, in addition to fixing the long -term program for financing and developing Tatar confessional and secular education, which provided for the creation of solid Wakufs in the largest jadids, the existence of a whole system of targeted scholarships to teach talented shakirs in medium, medium -sized technical technological, is actually formulated.

and higher educational institutions of Russia, in the Muslim educational centers of the Arab East, as well as the presence of peculiar “grants” for the writing and publication of popular science, educational and educational literature. Husainov proposed an effective way of financial support for further cultural transformations in Tatar society with his testament, designated an effective alternative to the indifference and indifference of a state that did not notice the pressing problems and needs of the Muslim population.

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