Fyodor Dmitriyevich Gakhov was born on 19 February 19 1906 in Batalpashinskaya village (present-day Cherkessk, Stavropol Krai) in the family of a shoemaker.
[1] In 1937 Gakhov defended his Candidate of Sciences thesis "Linear boundary value problems in the theory of analytic functions".
From 1937 to 1939 he worked as an assistant professor at the Kazan University, and from 1939 to 1947 he was the head of the Department of Mathematical Analysis of the North Ossetian Pedagogical Institute.
[2] In 1943 he defended his Doctor of Sciences thesis "Boundary value problems in the theory of analytic functions and singular integral equations".
[1] In 1947—1953 years Gakhov worked as a professor, and later as head of the Department of Differential Equations of Kazan University.