Mishi Bakhshiev (Russian: Бахшиев Миши Юсупович; Hebrew: מישה בקשייב; born October 10, 1910 – 1972) was a Soviet writer and poet of Mountain Jew origin. He wrote in languages of the Mountain Jews (Juhuri) and Russian.^[1]

Bakhshiev was born in 1910, in the Southern Russian city of Derbent.^[1] In 1928 he was sent to study in Krasnodar, and then to Moscow.^[2] In 1936 he graduated from the State University of Farming. During the World War II, he was a war correspondent. He held various party positions, worked in leading positions in the newspaper "Dagestankaya Pravda".^[2]

In 1932, Bakhshiev wrote his first story "Towards a New Life." In 1933–1940 he wrote several collections of poems ("Komsomol", "Fruits of October"), novels (Juhuri:Э пушорехьи тозе зиндегуни) – "Towards a New Life", (Juhuri:Vetegechiho) – "Fishermen" and dramas (Juhuri:Бесгуни игидхо) – "Victory of the Hero", (Juhuri:Хори) – "Earth", as well as the musical comedy (Juhuri:Шох угли, шох Аббас ва-хомбол Хасан) – "Shah's son, Shah Abbas and the loader Hasan".^[3] In the postwar years,^[4] Bakhshiyev wrote a collection of poems (Juhuri:Ме хосденуьм васале) – "I love spring", which was published only after the death of the author. In 1962–1963 he wrote in (Juhuri:Хушахой онгур) – "A Bunch of Grapes", it was the first novel in the Mountain Jewish literature.^[3] Bakhshiev was also involved in translations from Russian into Juhuri. He translated Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov and Nizami Ganjavi.^[5]

Some works of prose he wrote in Russian ("Stories about my fellow countrymen", 1956; "Common people", 1958; "Gardens will rustle", 1962, etc.) Bakhshiev's last play was Juhuri:Дю дедей) – "Two Mothers", 1965.^[3]

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