A Chuvash poetess has entered the World Book of Records.

Poem Marinas Karyagina “Hu chĕrĕ chuh” (“While you are alive...”)  brought in into the World Book of Records at the World Assembly in 2025 as a “unique cultural event.”

Marina Karyagina "was the first in world literature to create a new genre – the amphistrophe (a poem that can be read in both directions and reveals different meanings, turning one text into two independent works," notes the World Organization of Writers (WOW).

"I was just writing and suddenly I noticed that the line was being read backwards, and the meaning was completely different. But at the time, I didn't attach any serious significance to it." — the poetess told about the appearance of the amphistroph, which she 

The poetess invented the new genre back in 2002. Unlike a palindrome, reading it backwards allows the work to acquire new meaning.

Marina Karyagina was born in the village Old Akhperdino Batyrevsky Area Chuvashia. She began writing poetry at an early age, and the Chuvash language is her connection to family, home, and the voices she heard as a child. 

National languages ​​in Russia are located They are endangered. NeMoskva previously reported that this is happening because there is no intergenerational transmission. 

Individual activists in the regions are trying to preserve their own languages ​​in different ways. Yakutia family came up with its own alphabet, which may be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. And in the same Chuvashia activists transferred into the Chuvash language manga. 

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