Sergey Izgiyayev Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

Izgiyayev died on 27 July 1972 and was buried at the Jewish cemetery in Derbent.

In addition to poetry, Sergey Izgiyayev wrote stage plays for the Judeo-Tat Theatre. 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 (Juhuri:«Буьлуьнде астарегьо». 1968.) – High Stars written by a national Dagestani poet Rasul Gamzatov. Izgiyayev’s son David commented on this in an article:

In 1959, along with many other poets, Sergey Izgiyayev published his poems in a literary anthology (Juhuri:Сесгьой жовонгьо) – Voices of the Young.

The eldest son Rashi (1947-2009) died in Derbent. The other children Leah (Lisa), David, Ruspo (Rosa), Svetlana and grandchildren live in Israel.

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 MA 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.

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. Later that year he married Sarah Shamailov (1923-1978). Her contemporaries, men and women alike, thought that she was a beautiful woman. Sergey Izgiyayev dedicated to her many lyric poems.

Sergey Davidovich Izgiyayev (Russian: Сергей Давидович Изгияев; Hebrew: 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.