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Notable People From Dagestan
This page lists notable people from Dagestan. Historical figures *Abdulkhakim Ismailov (1916–2010), World War II soldier. He was photographed by Yevgeny Khaldei raising the flag of the Soviet Union over the Reichstag in Berlin on 2 May 1945, days before Nazi Germany's surrender * Abdullah ad-Daghestani (1891–1973), Sheikh of the Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufi order *Gasret Aliev (1922–1981), soldier, awarded "Hero of Soviet Union" medal *Ghazi Muhammad (1793–1832), Islamic scholar and ascetic, who was the first Imam of the Caucasian Imamate (from 1828 to 1832) *Hadji Murad (1795 –1852), Avar leader during the resistance of the peoples of Dagestan and Chechnya in 1811–1864 against the incorporation of the region into the Russian Empire, he was also a rival to Imam Shamil * Husenil Muhammad Afandi (1862–1967), Muslim spiritual leader, Sheikh of Naqshbandi tariqah * Imam Shamil (1797–1871), political, military, and spiritual leader of Caucasian resistance to Imperial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dagestan
Dagestan ( ; rus, Дагеста́н, , dəɡʲɪˈstan, links=yes), officially the Republic of Dagestan (russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respúblika Dagestán, links=no), is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, along the Caspian Sea. It is located north of the Greater Caucasus, and is a part of the North Caucasian Federal District. The republic is the southernmost tip of Russia, sharing land borders with the countries of Azerbaijan and Georgia to the south and southwest, the Russian republics of Chechnya and Kalmykia to the west and north, and with Stavropol Krai to the northwest. Makhachkala is the republic's capital and largest city; other major cities are Derbent, Kizlyar, Izberbash, Kaspiysk and Buynaksk. Dagestan covers an area of , with a population of over 3.1 million, consisting of over 30 ethnic groups and 81 nationalities. With 14 official languages, and 12 ethnic groups each constituting more than 1% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hadji Murad
Hadji Murad (russian: Хаджи-Мурат, av, XӀажи Мурад; 1818 – April 23, N.S. May 5, 1852) was an important North Caucasian Avar leader during the resistance of the peoples of Dagestan and Chechnya in 1811–1864 against the incorporation of the region into the Russian Empire. Life Youth Hadji Murad was an Avar commander who lived in the North Caucasus. He was foster-brother to Omar, son of Pakkou-Bekkhe, the Khanum of Khunzakh. According to the legend relayed by Leo Tolstoy, Murad's mother Patimat was originally to have been forced to give up her baby to become wet nurse for Omar. Her refusal nearly led to her murder but though stabbed in the breast she survived and indeed was finally able to wean her own son. Alliance with Russia Hadji Murad was involved in the murder of Gazmat-Bek during a Friday prayer in 1834, in revenge for Gamzat's murdering of the Khanum of Khunzakh and her sons. Murad's brother, Osman, was slain in the fight with Gamzat-bek's Muri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mushail Mushailov
Mushail Mushailov (russian: Мушаил Ханухович Мушаилов, he, מושאיל מושאילוב; born July 10, 1941 — January 4, 2007) was a Soviet/Russian artist and teacher of Mountain Jewish descent. He was a member of the USSR Union of Artists and Israel. He was also a laureate of the State Prize of the USSR. Biography Mushailov was born in Derbent, Dagestan USSR. In 1967 he graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art College of the Memory of 1905 and in 1973 from V. Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute. For many years Mushailov taught art at the Makhachkala Pedagogical Institute at the Department of Fine Arts and was the executive secretary of the Artists' Union of Dagestan. In 1994 Mushail Mushailov with his family immigrated to Israel. There he continued to work, taking part in various exhibitions; he painted pictures associated with Jewish themes. After eight years, in 2002, the artist left Israel and returned to Moscow, Russia. He taught dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Izgiyayev
Sergey Davidovich Izgiyayev (russian: Сергей Давидович Изгияев; he, סרגיי איזגיאייב; born 24 November 1922 – 27 July 1972) was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers, the author of nine books of poetry and five plays, the translator and creator of lyrics for more than thirty songs (nine of which were produced by Moscow's firm Melodiya on Gramophone records). He was of Mountain Jew descent. Biography Sergey Izgiyayev was born in Myushkyur, a village located south-east of the town of Derbent, in the Republic of Dagestan, on the river Gyul'gerychay. Its modern name is Nyugdi. His parents, Dovid-Haim and Leah, had seven children, including three sons and four daughters. Sergey Izgiyayev was the only one of the parent's three sons to live to adulthood. His brother Hizgie, when he was a child, accidentally fell into a flamed tandoor oven, and burned to death. His other brother Gadmil died of typhoid fever in his early teens. His sisters Sariah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rasul Gamzatov
Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov ( av, ХӀамзатазул Расул ХӀамзатил вас, Ħamzatil Rasul Ħamzatil vas, ; russian: Расу́л Гамза́тович Гамза́тов, p=rɐˈsul ɡɐmˈzatəvʲɪtɕ ɡɐmˈzatəf, a=Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov.ru.vorb.oga; 8 September 19233 November 2003) was a popular Russian poet who wrote in Avar language. Among his poems was '' Zhuravli'', which became a well-known Soviet song. Life Gamzatov was born on 8 September 1923 in the Avar village of Tsada in the north-east Caucasus. His father, Gamzat Tsadasa, was a well-known bard, heir to the ancient tradition of minstrelsy still thriving in the mountains. He was eleven when he wrote his first verse about a group of local boys who ran down to the clearing where an airplane had landed for the first time. A number of different poems by him also became songs, such as ''Gone Sunny Days''. In 1939 he graduated from Pedagogical College. He had various jobs serving as a school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vazif Meylanov
Vazif Sirazhutdinovich Meylanov (russian: Вази́ф Сиражутди́нович Мейла́нов, 15 May 1940 – 11 January 2015) was a Soviet mathematician, social philosopher, writer, Soviet dissident and political prisoner (1980–1989). He became renowned for his critical works on theory of socialism as well as for singular endurance and uncompromising attitude towards authorities during his prison terms. After imprisonment and exile Vazif Meylanov dealt with the problem of personal freedom, examined social and political environment, dispelled stereotypes about Russian democracy and analyzed political consciousness of Russian society. Besides, he was an opponent of nationalism and Islamism, while he proposed that the idea of rule of human rights should be a basis for human relationships and strong state machine should enforce rights. Biography Early years Vazif Meylanov was born in Makhachkala on May 15, 1940. He is an ethnic Lezgin. Until 1954 he studied at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Said Afandi Al-Chirkawi
Said Afandi al-Chirkawi ( av, ЧӀикӀаса СагӀид афанди, russian: Шейх Саид Афанди аль-Чиркави; 21 October 1937 – 28 August 2012) was a prominent scholar in Shafii mazhab and a spiritual master, or murshid. He was killed by a female suicide bomber on 28 August 2012. Biography Al-Chirkawi was born in 1937 in the village of Chirkey, Buynaksky District, Republic of Dagestan. He was an Islamic scholar, a spiritual leader of Dagestani Muslims, and Sufi Shaykh of Naqshbandi and Shazali tariqahs. Tens of thousands of Muslims gather annually at Chirkey for brotherhood majlis — Mawlid celebrations — which were organised by Afandi. On 28 April 2012 more than 300,000 people from all over Russia and abroad were present at the annual gathering. Said Afandi was considered one of the Russia's top spiritual leaders whose tens of thousands of followers include influential officials, clerics and businessmen. His father died when Afandi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maksud Alikhanov
Maksud Alikhanov-Avarsky ( Russian language: Максуд Алиханов-Аварский) (in some documents his name is spelled as Alexander Mikhailovich) (1846-1907) - Russian Lieutenant-General (April 22, 1907), Merv District Head and Tiflis Governor. The elder brother of Kaitmaz Alikhanov. Biography Born on November 23, 1846 in the village of Khunzakh in Dagestan, in the family of an Avar officer. As a child, he was held hostage by Shamil, after the ransom was determined in the 2nd Tiflis noble school. He reportedly carried the name Ali Khan Avarski. His governance in the Caucasus was controversial and characterized as repressive. He was subjected to an assassination attempt in 1906. He was assassinated in 1907. The New York Times reports the date of the assassination as July 16. Awards * Order of St. George (1877) * Order of St. Vladimir (1872, 1899) * Order of St. Anna (1888, 1906) * Order of St. Stanislaus The Order of Saint Stanislaus ( pl, Order Św. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hero Of The Soviet Union
The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society. Overview The award was established on 16 April 1934, by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. The first recipients of the title originally received only the Order of Lenin, the highest Soviet award, along with a certificate (грамота, ''gramota'') describing the heroic deed from the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Because the Order of Lenin could be awarded for deeds not qualifying for the title of hero, and to distinguish heroes from other Order of Lenin holders, the Gold Star medal was introduced on 1 August 1939. Earlier heroes were retroactively eligible for these items. A hero could be awarded the title again for a subsequent heroic feat with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magomet Gadzhiyev
Magomet Imadutinovich Gadzhiyev (russian: Магомет Имадутдинович Гаджиев; 20 December 1907 – 12 May 1942) was a Soviet Navy submarine commander and Hero of the Soviet Union. He fought and died during World War II. Biography Gadzhiev was an ethnic Avar, born into a peasant family in the Megeb area of Dagestan. He joined the navy in 1925 and graduated from the Frunze Higher Naval School in 1932. He was appointed to the submarine division of the Black Sea Fleet and was second in command of the AG class submarine ''A2''. He subsequently commanded the submarines ''M-9'' and ''ShCh-117''. In 1939 he studied at the Voroshilov Naval Academy and was assigned to the Northern Fleet on graduation. He became commander of the submarine brigade of the Northern Fleet in 1940. His command sank 10 German transports in 1942. On 12 May 1942 his boat, the K class '' K 23'', was sunk by German forces commanded by Wolfgang Kaden with all hands lost. Awards and honou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Husenil Muhammad Afandi
Husenil Muhammad Afandi was a Russian Muslim scholar, spiritual leader, Shaykh of Naqshbandi and Shazali tariqahs in Dagestan. He was born in 1862 in village Urib and died in 1967 and buried in Urib, Shamilsky District, Dagestan, Soviet Union. For twenty years he worked as imam in village Kazanishe of Buynaksky District, Dagestan. In 1920 he received ijazah from Shaykh Hasan Hilmi Afandi but he hid it until 1950 when he received second ijazah and order for preceptorship from Shaykh Humayd Afandi. His disciples who received his ijazah include Shaykh Muhammad Arif Afandi, Shaykh Hamzat Afandi and Shaykh Abdul Hamid Afandi, who later passed the tariqah ijazah to Shaykh Said Afandi al-Chirkawi. In May 2011 new jum`ah mosque named after Shaykh Husenil Muhammad Afandi was opened to public in Makhachkala, Dagestani capital. In July 2011 gathering of Dagestani Islamic scholars it was decided to open a madrassah named after Shaykh Husenil Muhammad Afandi in village Gogotl where th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamil, 3rd Imam Of Dagestan
Imam Shamil ( av, Шейх Шамил, Şeyx Şamil; ar, الشيخ شامل; russian: Имам Шамиль; 26 June 1797 – 4 February 1871) was the political, military, and spiritual leader of North Caucasian resistance to Imperial Russia in the 1800s, the third Imam of the Caucasian Imamate (1840–1859), and a Sunni Muslim Shaykh of the Naqshbandi Sufi Tariqa. Family and early life Imam Shamil was born in 1797 into an Avar Muslim family. He was born in the small village (aul) of Gimry, (in present-day Dagestan, Russia). He was originally named Ali, but following local tradition, his name was changed when he became ill. His father, Dengau, was a landlord, and this position allowed Shamil and his close friend Ghazi Mollah to study many subjects, including Arabic and logic. Shamil grew up at a time when the Russian Empire was expanding into the territories of the Ottoman Empire and of Persia (see Russo-Persian War (1804-1813) and Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812)). Many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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