Izgiyayev was born in
Myushkyur, a village located south-east of the town of
Derbent, modern-day
Dagestan, on the river Gyul'gerychay. The village's modern name is
Nyugdi. His parents, Dovid-Haim and Leah, had seven children, including three sons and four daughters. Izgiyayev was the only one of the parent's three sons to live to adulthood. His brother Hizgie, as a child, accidentally fell into a flamed
tandoor oven, and burned to death. His other brother, Gadmil, died of
typhoid fever in his early teens. His sisters Sariah, Mazaltu, Tirso, and Shushen survived to adulthood. Sergey Izgiyayev started writing poems as a child. In 1939, the regional newspaper
Red Star (
in the language of the Mountain Jews) published a large collection of his poems. Later that year, he married Sarah Shamailov (1923–1978). Her contemporaries, men and women alike, thought that she was a beautiful woman. From 1940 to 1946, Sergey Izgiyayev was in the military, where he continued to write and publish in the military press. After demobilization, Izgiyayev went to school and graduated from a pedagogical college while working at the local radio station. In 1947, Sergey Izgiyayev participated in the first congress for young writers in
Soviet Dagestan. Izgiyayev's son David commented on this in an article: Izgiyayev dedicated many poems to his wife Sarah, one of them was
To the beloved that written by him while still the groom. The poem
Daughter Sveta is dedicated to his youngest daughter. Izgiyayev died on 27 July 1972 and was buried at the Jewish cemetery in
Derbent. ==Family==