Gamzat Tsadasa

[1] Gamzat Tsadasa was born on 9 August 1877 in the Avar village of Tsada in the north-east Caucasus, in Russian Empire in the family of a poor peasant.

In 1921-1922 he worked as the editor of the Krasnye Gory newspaper, where he published his first poems.In 1923-1925 he was chairman of the revolutionary Sharia court.

He is buried in the city center (Rasul Gamzatov avenue)[4] The beginning of his literary path dates back to 1891, with his first poem “The Dog of Alibek”.

He wrote literary works of a socially accusatory nature, his poems, jokes were directed against various established norms adats, mullahs, wealthy people, traders.

Gamzat Tsadasa is the first author of Avar fables, poems and fairy tales for children.

Gamzat Tsadasa is the author of the dramas and comedies "The Shoemaker", "Meeting in Battle", "The Marriage of Kadalav".

Dagestan State Avar Theater in Makhachkala was named after Gamzat Tsadasa posthumously in 1951.