Mikhail Borisovich Gavrilov

Mikhail Gavrilov (Russian: Гаврилов Михаил Борисович; Hebrew: מיכאיל גברילוב; born 29 December 1926 – 18 July 2014) was a Soviet writer and poet of Mountain Jew descent.

[1] Gavrilov completed the distance education courses at the Derbent Pedagogical School, after which he switched to teaching.

In 1970 he graduated from the distance learning department of the history faculty of the Dagestan State University.

He published in periodicals, in the almanac (Juhuri:Ватан Советиму) – "The Soviet Motherland" in the Judeo-Tat language, stories, the poem (Juhuri:Гhард ферзенди) – "Filial duty", as well as collections of poems in Judeo-Tat and in Russian.

[1] During the Perestroika period, when national schools began to revive, Gavrilov prepared and published textbooks in Judeo-Tat language for grades 1–4, curricula and copybooks.