Yagutil Mishiev

Yagutil Mishiev was born in 1927 in Gyrmyzy Gasaba

Yagutil Mishiev was born on 29 March 1927 in Qırmızı Qəsəbə, a village in the Quba region of Azerbaijan, then part of the USSR. In 1951 his family moved to Derbent in Dagestan.

In 1943 he took a teaching course and began to teach. He studied at the Kuba Pedagogical College and Institute and qualified as a physics and mathematics teacher in 1947. In 1963 he earned a master's degree from Dagestan State University.

From 1943 to 1951 he helped prepare documents for medals given to World War II labor front workers, and in 1946 he carried out a census of veterans in Kuba. From 1954 to 1969 he directed the Local History Museum in Derbent, collected material on the city's history and wrote for local newspapers. He was principal of School No. 11 in Derbent from 1976 to 1991 and then a chief specialist in the city's education department until 1997.

In 1997 he immigrated to Israel and settled in Rishon LeZion. There he wrote books on Derbent, his family and Jewish history, and a Russian-English dictionary of mathematical terms. He died on 2 April 2024.