Makhmud Esambayev

Makhmud Alisultanovich Esambayev was a Chechen actor and dancer. Makhmud was regarded as one of the most famous dancers of the Soviet Union.

Makhmud was born in Starye Atagi, Chechnya, to Chechen parents. When he was a child, his father would take him to village weddings where he would perform dances. At the age of fifteen, Makhmud joined the ChechenIngush Song and Dance Company, and at nineteen, he joined the operetta theater of Pyatigorsk, where he would give concerts to Red Army troops fighting in the Second World War. The next year, Makhmud joined the Kyrgyz theater of opera and ballet as a soloist, where he played the lead role in productions of Swan Lake , The Fountain of Bakhchisarai and The Sleeping Beauty.

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