Samson Chanba (1886–1937)

Samson Chanba

Samson Kuagu-ipa Chanba (Abkhaz: Самсон Кәагә-иҧа Ҷанба; born June 18, 1886 —died 1937), Abkhazian educator, poet, and dramatist, best known for his contribution to the development of Abkhazian drama.

Samson Chanba trained as a teacher in Abkhazia. He taught for several decades in Abkhazian villages and later in Sukhum, the capital of Abkhazia, before his first major publication, the long poem Daughter of the Mountains, appeared in 1919. An enthusiastic supporter of the Bolshevik Revolution, he joined the Communist Party in 1921, the year that he took on joint editorship (with M. Khashba) of the Abkhaz-language newspaper Red Abkhazia.

Sergei Bagapsh (1949-2011)

Sergei Bagapsh

Sergei Wasil-ipa Bagapsh (Abkhaz: Сергеи Уасыл-иҧа Багаҧшь; 4 March 1949 – 29 May 2011) was the second President of the Republic of Abkhazia. He was Prime Minister from 1997 to 1999 and was later elected as President in 2005. He was re-elected in the 2009 presidential election. He died on 29 May 2011, at the age of 62, from complications of surgery.

Neli Tarba (1934-2014)

Neli Tarba

Neli Zolotinskovna Tarba (Abkhaz: Нелли Золотинск-иҧҳа Ҭарба; 20 November 1934 - 29 January 2014). Abkhaz writer, poet, translator and essayist.

Neli Tarba was born on the 20 November 1934 in the village Duripsh in the Gudauta District of the Abkhazian ASSR. In 1954 she graduated from high school in her native village. Then also in 1954 she entered the Faculty of the Sukhum State Pedagogical Institute named after A. M. Gorki, graduating in 1959.

Hibla Gerzmava

Hibla Gerzmava

Hibla Gerzmava (Abkhaz: Хьыбла Леварса иҧҳа Герзмаа), (born January 6, 1970), is an Abkhazian operatic soprano. 

Gerzmava was born in Pitsunda, Abkhazia. She studied at the Moscow Conservatory and won the Grand Prix of the Tenth Tchaikovsky Competition. She is a member of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre, Moscow, where her repertory includes Lucia di Lammermoor, Donna Anna, Cherubini’s Medea, the four heroines (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Violetta (La traviata) and Mimì. Her other operatic appearances include Liù, Donna Anna, Desdemona (Otello), Antonia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) and Mimì for the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Mimì for Bavarian State Opera, Violetta for the Bolshoi Theatre, Donna Anna for Vienna State Opera, Anna Bolena for La Scala, Milan, Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito) for Paris Opéra and Vienna State Opera and Elisabeth de Valois (Don Carlos) for Paris Opéra.

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