Background
Sergey Izgiyayev was born in Mushkur, a village located south-east of the town of Derbent, in the Republic of Dagestan, on the river Gyul"gerychay.
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He was of Mountain Jew descent. Its modern name is Nyugdi. Sergey Izgiyayev was the only one of the parent"s three sons to live to adulthood.
Sergey Izgiyayev started writing poems as a child.
In 1939, the regional newspaper Red Star (in the language of the Mountain Jews) published a large collection of his poems. Her contemporaries, men and women alike, thought that she was a beautiful woman.
Sergey Izgiyayev dedicated to her many lyric poems. From 1940 to 1946 Sergey Izgiyayev was in the military, where he continued to write and publish in the military press
After demobilization, Izgiyayev went to school and graduated from a Pedagogical College while working at the local radio station.
In 1947, Sergey Izgiyayev participated in the first congress for young writers in Dagestan. In the early 1960s, he earned his Master of Arts in education. From 1961 he served as the chairman of a collective farm (kolkhoz), and was the head of the department of culture of Derbent District Executive Committee, among other leadership positions.
In 1963, Sergey Izgiyayev was accepted to the Union of Soviet Writers.
In addition to poetry, Sergey Izgiyayev wrote stage plays for the Mountain Jewish Theater. He translated poems and plays from Russian, Avar, Azerbaijani, and other languages into his native Mountain Jew’s language, Juhuri.
He also translated the libretto of Uzeyir Hajibeyov"s opera Layla and Majnun, and poems by Mikhail Lermontov, Suleyman Stalsky, Gamzat Tsadasa, Rasul Gamzatov and other poets. His second major work in translation involved a poem in Avar called High Star written by a national Dagestani poet Rasul Gamzatov.
Izgiyayev"s son David commented on this in an article:
About thirty of Sergey Izgiyayev"s poems became songs.
"Daddy"s songs, especially Gyulboor, are still sung by people in Russia, Israel, America and Europe…"
Many Dagestani composers such as Baba Guliyev, Jumshud Ashurov and Juno Avshalumov wrote music based on poetry written by Sergey Izgiyayev. He died in July 27, 1972, buried at the Jewish cemetery in Derbent. The eldest son Rashi (1947-2009) died in Derbent.
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Poetry and Poems (1981)
Favorites (2002).
Membership
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Writers.
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Soviet Union