Fazu Aliyeva (5 December 1932 – 1 January 2016) was an Avar-speaking

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-born

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n poet, novelist and journalist. She played a significant role in the development of Dagestani in Russian literature. She was also a

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Overview

Aliyeva was born in the

Khunzakhsky District Khunzakhsky District (russian: Хунзахский райо́н; av, Хунзахъ мухъ) is an administrativeLaw #16 and municipalLaw #6 district (raion), one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. It is located in the weste ...

of Dagestan. From 1954-1955, Fazu Aliyeva studied at

Dagestan State Pedagogical University Dagestan State Pedagogical University (DSPU; russian: Дагестанский государственный педагогический университет; ДГПУ, ''Dagestanskiy gosudarstvennyy pedagogicheskiy universitet''; ''DGPU'') i ...

. In 1961 she graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. She was a member of the

Union of Soviet Writers The Union of Soviet Writers, USSR Union of Writers, or Soviet Union of Writers (russian: Союз писателей СССР, translit=Soyuz Sovetstikh Pisatelei) was a creative union of professional writers in the Soviet Union. It was founded ...

as well as the

Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation The Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation (russian: Общественная палата Российской Федерации), sometimes shortened to Civic Chamber (russian: Общественная палата), is a consultative civil s ...

(until 2006). Aliyeva was awarded two Orders of the "Badge of Honor", two Orders of Friendship of Peoples and the

Order of St. Andrew The Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called (russian: Орден Святого апостола Андрея Первозванного, translit=Orden Svyatogo apostola Andreya Pervozvannogo) is the highest order conferred by both the ...

in 2002. She was awarded the Gold Medal of the Soviet Peace Fund, the Jubilee Medal of the

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, and honorary awards in several foreign countries. Aliyeva died in

Makhachkala Makhachkala ( rus, Махачкала, , məxətɕkɐˈla, links=yes),; av, Махӏачхъала, Maħaçqala; ce, ХӀинжа-ГӀала, Hinƶa-Ġala; az, Маһачгала, Mahaçqala; nog, Махачкала; lbe, Махачкъала; ...

, Dagestan, Russia, on 1 January 2016, from heart failure at the age of 83.

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