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Following the Russian translation, the book has been translated into several languages such as Bulgarian, English, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Persian, Polish, Punjabi, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese and other languages. [11] "My Dagestan" is the most famous of Gamzatov's 31 books that have been translated into foreign ...
Dagestan (/ ˌ d æ ɡ ɪ ˈ s t æ n,-ˈ s t ɑː n / DAG-i-STA(H)N; Russian: Дагестан; IPA: [dəɡʲɪˈstan]), officially the Republic of Dagestan, [a] 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 ...
The Tabasaran language is being almost entirely replaced by Azerbaijani, which is known by nearly everyone in the region. The phenomenon of other peoples speaking Azerbaijani was also documented by German linguist and ethnographer A. Dirr, who studied the languages of Dagestan in the early 20th century: [134]
There are more than 30 recognized ethnic groups and 13 local languages granted special status alongside Russian. The region has seen its population boom in recent years, reaching 3.2 million in 2024. About 95% of the population identifies as Muslim, according to Russian government statistics, but the region also has long-standing Christian and ...
Eduard Puterbrot (1940–1993), Dagestan artist and member of the USSR Union of Artists; Fazu Aliyeva (1932–2016), poet, novelist and journalist; Hasbulla Magomedov (2002-) Comedian, entertainer and internet sensation; Hizgil Avshalumov (1913–2001), Soviet novelist, poet, playwright; wrote in Juhuri (language of the Mountain Jews) as well ...
Nowadays the literary language is influencing the dialects, levelling out their differences. [citation needed] The most famous figure of modern Avar literature is Rasul Gamzatov (died November 3, 2003), the People's Poet of Dagestan. Translations of his works into Russian have gained him a wide audience all over the former Soviet Union ...
At least 20 people, including an Orthodox priest and several police officers were killed in multiple attacks in the Russian region of Dagestan on Sunday. - Just before 6 p.m. local time (1500 GMT ...
National Museum of the Republic of Dagestan in Makhachkala. The word Dagestan (sometimes spelled Daghestan) is of Turkish and Persian origin, directly translating to 'Land of the Mountains'. The Turkish word dağ means 'mountain', and the Persian suffix -stan means 'land'. Some areas of Dagestan were known as Lekia, Avaria and Tarki at various ...