Background
KHAPPALAEV, Yusup was born in 1916 in village Khurukra, Dagestan.
writer and translator Dagestan (Lak) poet
KHAPPALAEV, Yusup was born in 1916 in village Khurukra, Dagestan.
Studied at Faculty of Literature, Dagestan Pedagogical Institute. Completed higher literature courses.
Has translated into Lak works by Lermontov, Shevchenko, Lesya Ukrainka, Nizami, Rustaveli, Khetagurov, Dzhambul, Mayakovsky and Khikmet and the verse of Chinese, Korean, Greek and other poets. 1958 delegate, and member, Credentials Commission] 1st Constituent Congress Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Writers. 1959 delegation at 3rd Congress of USSR Writers'.