Rasul Gamzatov was born on September 8, 1923 in Tsada, Dagestan ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Dagestan, Russia]. He was a writer, known for Die Bergbewohnerin (1975), Die Sage vom tapferen Chotschbar (1988) and The Americans (2013). He died on November 3, 2003 in Moscow, Russia.