Introduction. The article is devoted to the study of a number of poems by H. Tufan, created in the mid-1920s. Purpose. The aim of the research is to analyze the poems of H. Tufan from the point of view of themes, prob-lems and poetics. Materials and methods. The poems “Yellar itagenda” (“On the threshold of years”, 1925), “Bashlana bashlady” (“It Began”, 1927), “Bibievlar” (“Bibievs”, 1927) were the materials for the analysis. To achieve this goal, cultural-historical, hermeneutical methods were used, using contextual and cultural principles. Results, discussion. The poems of H. Tufan, created in the second half of the 1920s, according to many re-searchers of Tatar literature (M. Gainutdinov, R. Sabirov, R. Mustafin, etc.) form a single cycle. They reflect one of the key features of the genre evolution of the Tatar poem during this period – the attraction to epization, due to the desire to reflect the process of creating a new world. Focusing on the problem-thematic (the poems are dominated by the theme of labor and the problem of class inequality) and motivational (the key themes in the works are the motives of building a new world, struggle, unity, etc.) features traditional for this period of literary development, the poet, on the other hand, creates texts open to various interpretations, which allows us to assert the relevance of the Soviet stage of his work to this day. Conclusion. In the course of the analysis of H. Tufan’s works, the key features characteristic of the author's epic poems created under the conditions of ideological reg-ulation and characterizing the main artistic and figurative solutions of Tatar literature as a whole are highlighted.