Bahadur Malachikhanov

Bahadur Gamzatovich Malachikhanov was an Avar public figure, engineer and writer from Dagestan whom the article also calls an energy scientist. Born in 1882 in the village of Ashilta, he graduated from the higher technical school in Moscow in 1910, where the aviation pioneer Nikolai Zhukovsky inspired his interest in applied hydroaerodynamics, and worked as a teacher and railway engineer. In 1918 and 1919 he was minister of finance and of trade, industry and food of the Republic of the Mountaineers, and in 1920 governor of the Zakatala province. Under Soviet rule he directed a copper smelter, served in the Dagestan education commissariat and economic council, and in 1937 headed the energy department of the Dagestan research institute of industry. He also wrote the first Avar drama and translated Avar epic poetry. He was arrested in 1937 and shot in Moscow in 1941, and was rehabilitated in 1958. He is included here for his energy engineering post.