Notable Avars
The most prominent figures in Avar history were Umma Khan Avarian, Hadji Murat, and Imam Shamil. The most celebrated poet writing in the Avar language was Rasul Gamzatov (1923–2003). In Azerbaijan, there was an ethnic Avar Member of the Parliament (MP), Ali Antsukhskiy (elected in 1995), who was killed in 1996.
Famous Avar artists include Halil-Beg Mussayassul, whose drawings were shown at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Kamil Aliev (a distant cousin of Musayasul) who is noted for his ornamental carpet work.
A famous sportsman of Avar origin is a former WBO heavyweight champion Sultan Ibragimov.
The World War II submarine commander and hero of the Soviet Union Magomet Gadzhiyev was an Avar.
Mansur Isaev is an ethnic Avar judoka from Russia. He won gold in the finals at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the class -73 kg.
Alisa Ganieva, a Moscow-based award-winning author, writes in Russian, but identifies herself as an Avar.
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