This article is devoted to the study of the critical activity of the famous Tatar writer, novelist, publicist and playwright Fatih Husni (1908-1996). The subject of the study is the learning of the contribution of F. Khusni in the development of Tatar critical thought in the 1960s-1980s. This period of his work is determined by several social and political factors: the period of the thaw literature, which was actively manifested in the 1950s and 1960s; also F.Husni's self-actualization as an active representative of literary criticism with the search for interesting genre forms and issues in them. The absence of scientific papers devoted to a detailed analysis of the critical activity of F.Husni in the period from 1960 to 1980 determines the novelty of this study. Despite the fact that his main activity was prose, F. Husni regularly followed the literary process and expressed his attitude to the trends of its development, noticing interesting finds, creative successes, as well as shortcomings in the literary and aesthetic searches of individual writers. This is evidenced by his numerous articles in periodicals such as "Kazan Utlary", etc. The article draws evidence-based conclusions about the contribution of F. Khusni in the field of Tatar literary criticism, in enriching its genre system, expanding the subject matter in the above-mentioned period. The use of the principle of historicism in close connection with comparative-historical, typological and analytical research methods made it possible to reveal the genre system and the features of the genre of F. Husni's literary and critical heritage in the period 1960-1980.