Educational activities of the Ramiev brothers gold miners in the late XIX - early XX century

Tatar educational thought has a centuries-old history, which is rich in unforgettable names. The most prominent among them are the names of the Ramiev - Muhammatshakir brothers (1875-1912) and Muham-matzakir (1859-1921). Despite the available research, their educational and industrial-economic activities still keep undisclosed mysteries that are waiting for their trained researchers. Mukhammatzakir, abbreviated Zakir, is known to the Tatar reader by the pseudonym Deardmand, whose poems are also not disclosed in educational and didactic aspects. In tsarist Russia, the Ramiev brothers became famous as gold miners, and in the Tatar world they are still known as patrons of art who built and maintained many mosques, madrassas, new-fangled schools, they taught students of madrassas in Russia and other countries at their own expense, which was facilitated by their education, publishing and entrepreneurial activities, as well as economic consciousness. The Ramiev brothers were able to create a powerful literary force with their publishing house of newspapers and magazines, consisting of G. Ibragimov, S. Kamal, M. Gafuri, Sh. Babich, Z. Sagid, Z. Bashiri, G. Tukai, some of whom have become classics of Tatar literature. This study reveals to the reader some aspects of the educational activities of the Ramiev brothers.