Balugov, Ismail Abdulkhalikovich

Ismail Abdulkhalikovich Balugov was born in 1908 in the city of Zakataly , Zakatala district (according to the passport on January 1, 1910, in the village of Kumukh ).

He worked at the Laky Drama Theater named after Effendi Kapiev since its foundation in 1935: actor of the 1st category (1935-1939), chief director and director of the theater (1943-1950). In 1935 he wrote the play “Kazbek”, which embodied the ideas of the liberation struggle of the poor against khanish arbitrariness and showed the first shoots of the revolutionary movement. In 1939, he graduated from the 9-month director’s courses in Moscow. In 1940 he joined the Communist Party . In 1952 he graduated from the 6-month director's courses.

During his work at the Laksky Theater, he staged more than 40 new performances: “The Servant of Two Masters” - Carlo Goldoni, “The Scoundrels” - Jean Baptiste Moliere, “Cunning and Love” - Friedrich Schiller, “Our People - Let's Count” - Alexander Ostrovsky, “ Marriage ”- Nikolai Gogol. All these productions were a great success and received good praise from the audience and the press.

In 1973, after working for 38 years, he went on a well-deserved rest.

He died on April 1, 1991.

Family

Great-grandfather - Jagan-bek Balugov, was a descendant of Sultanahmad, who because of enmity with the local ruler in 1712 moved with his family from Kumukh to Ganja. The father of Sultanahmad was khakhlavchi Muhammad-shamkhal, the son of Rustamkhan (Mamma-shamkhal,? - 1676), mentioned by the 18th-century German traveler Jacob Reineggs: “they chose Targu for their summer stay, and in Kumuk they left one of their relatives as ruler; but it happened once that a certain Mohammed, remaining the mayor, seized this city and, in addition, a considerable part of the province with an armed arm and forced him to stay in Targu, where the shamgal still has its permanent home. ” In 1837, in the Caucasus, Jagan-bek Balugov accompanied the emperor Nicholas I from Karavan Saray to the Red Bridge in an honorary convoy and was awarded the Caucasus 1837 medal ^[1] .

Grandfather - Beglyar-bek Balugov, served in the Elizavetpol city police as a custodian of a prison castle and in 1882 he was promoted to outland councilor upon resignation ^{[2] [3]} .

Father - Abdul-Khalik-bey, died a month before the birth of his son.

Mother - Muminat Bike, died a few years after the birth of her son. Remaining without parents, an orphan was raised by relatives from Kumukh.

Wife - Umukusum Balugova.

Theater Roles

Ismail Balugov played more than 200 roles, including:

• comedy “The involuntary doctor” Jean Baptiste Moliere - Leander ;
• the play "Love of Spring" by Konstantin Trenev - Commissioner Roman Koshkin ;
• the play “Guilty Without Guilt” by Alexander Ostrovsky - rich gentleman Neil Dudukin and actor Grigory Neznamov ;
• the play “Break” by Boris Lavrenyov - captain I rank Bersenyev ;
• the play “Honor” by George Mdivani - Yagor ;
• play "Kikvidze" by Vanion Daraseli - Samuel Medvedovsky
• comedy “Alien Child” by Vasily Shkvarkin - engineer Pribylev ;
• the heroic drama "Azdar" by Minkail Aliyev - Aglarkhan, Azdar .

Literary work

In addition to the drama “Kazbek”, Ismail Balugov wrote the plays “Bloody Valley”, “You Will Not Know Me”, “People of the East”, which have been part of the Lak Theater repertoire for many years. In 1967, Ismail Abdulkhalikovich completed the multi-act play “Life begins again”.

• Honored Artist of the Dagestan ASSR (November 12, 1945)
• People's Artist of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (May 20, 1960)
• medals:
  • “ For valiant work in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. ";
  • “ For the defense of the Caucasus ”;
  • “ For Labor Valor ” (medal No. 57294 of March 2, 1946),
• badge of the USSR Ministry of Culture “For excellent work” (Order No. 1546k of October 7, 1957)
• letters of honor.

• Lak Theater / S. Govorov. - Makhachkala: Type. No. 7 of the M-va culture of the DASSR, 1957. - S. 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 29, 32, 36, 39.
• Essays on the history of Soviet art in Dagestan 1917-1941 / USSR Academy of Sciences. Dagestan branch. Institute of History, Language and Literature named after G. Tsadasa. - M .: Nauka, 1987 .-- S. 198, 253, 254.
• The art of Dagestan in the context of modern art culture: Sat. Art. / M.I. Magomedova-Chalabova, D.M. Magomedov. USSR Academy of Sciences. Dagestan branch. Institute of History, Language and Literature named after G. Tsadasa. - 1988 .-- S. 39.
• Theatrical life. - 1960. - V. 1-12. - S. 30.
• Multilingual Theater of Russia; Theaters of the autonomous republics of the RSFSR today: Sat. Art. / A. Ya. Wolfson, V.A. Sakhnovsky-Pankeev. - The All-Russian Theater Society, 1980. - S. 162.
• The revolutions are dedicated / G. Sultanova // Theme of revolution and socialist transformations in the Dagestan drama and theater. - Dagestan book. Publishing House, 1981. - S. 78, 79.
• // Theater . - 1954. - V. 7-12. - S. 162.
• // Theater . - 1965. - T. 26, V. 3. - P.88.
• History of Dagestan Soviet literature / USSR Academy of Sciences. Dagestan branch. Institute of History, Language and Literature named after G. Tsadasa. - 1967. - T. 1 / A.F. Nazarevich, R.F. Yusufova. - S. 133.
• Some questions of the formation and development of professional art in Dagestan / D. M. Magomedov. - 1971. - S. 47.
• Dagestan Soviet dramaturgy / M.I. Zulfukarova. - 1965. - S. 65.
• Essays on Lak Soviet Literature / A. G. Huseynaev. USSR Academy of Sciences. Dagestan branch. Institute of History, Language and Literature named after G. Tsadasa. - 1964 .-- S. 58.
• History of Soviet Multinational Literature / A. Gorky Institute of World Literature. - The science. - T. 2, Part 2 / L.I. Timofeev, G.I. Lomidze. - S. 212.
• Art and literature of Dagestan / A. Puterbrot. - Dagestan book. Publishing House, 1963 .-- S. 35, 75, 77.
• Cultural construction in the RSFSR / Main Archival Administration, Central State Archive of the RSFSR. - Soviet Russia, 1986. - Part 1-2: Documents and materials, 1928-1941 / S. A. Fedyukin, L. I. Davydova. - S. 296, 355.
• History of the Soviet Drama Theater / Institute of the History of Arts. - M .: Nauka, 1968. - T. 4. - S. 596, 597; M .: Nauka, 1971. - T. 6. - S. 593.
• Theatrical Encyclopedia. - The Soviet Encyclopedia. - T. 3. - S. 374, 375.
• Balugov I. “Ke and wa tsul La” ( var .) . - RGALI, f. 652, op. 7 units hr 3571.
• A trip in the North Caucasus / D. Trunov. - Progress Publishers, 1965 .-- P. 206.
• Great Soviet encyclopedia. - Macmillan, 1982. - Vol. 7. - P. 78.