Mashidat Gajiyevna Gairbekova

Mashidat Gajiyevna Gairbekova (born 29 December 1927 in Karata; died 22 November 2015) was an Avar poet and author. She graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, and was first published in 1948. She authored several compilations of poetry, such as "The Word of a Goryanka" and "On the Way to the Top", that sketched life in rural Dagestan.