Sergei Artyomevich Agababov (, 25 October 1926, in

Makhachkala Makhachkala, previously known as Petrovskoye (1844–1857) and Port-Petrovsk (1857–1921), or by the local Kumyk language, Kumyk name of Anji, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Dagestan, Russia. ...

, Dagestan – 23 October 1959, in

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, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet composer of Armenian origin.

Biography

Agababov was born on 25 October 1926 in Makhachkala. In 1951, he graduated with honours from both Dagestan Medical Institute, and the School of Music, in which he wrote his first song, ''Daughter of Dagestan'' and ''Song of Oilers''. Having made his choice in favour of music, he entered the

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in 1952 in the composition class of Anatoly Alexandrov.

Death

On October 23, 1959, 2 days before his 33rd birthday, Agababov boarded Aeroflot Flight 200, an

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flying from

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with stops in

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and

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. Weather delayed the flight from the start. The flight arrived at Stalingrad with a delay of more than two hours. At 14:20 the aircraft approached Vnukovo, but the airport was closed due to meteorological conditions. Two hours after take-off, it arrived back in Stalingrad. At 18:50 the crew, being on duty for almost 14 hours, made a second takeoff. At 22:10 on the approach to the Vnukovo airport in low cloud cover when trying to land the plane, it touched trees 700 meters from the runway, fell to the forest, and was burned and destroyed. Only one person on board survived the crash, a passenger. All 5 crew members and the other 23 passengers, among whom was Sergei Artemyevitch Agababov, were killed.

Honours

Two schools of music and a street in Makhachkala have been named after Agababov, and, in 2010, a

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was unveiled on the house in Buinakskaya Street where he was born and grew up.

References

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