Murad Kajlayev

Murad Kajlayev studied at Baku Academy of Music. The recorded working language is Russian. Places of work recorded in the authority are Moscow. Positions recorded include member of the State Duma. Distinctions recorded are People's Artist of the USSR, Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class, Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class and Order of Friendship.

• Name — Murad Kazhlayev • Born — 15 January 1931 • Birthplace — Baku, Transcaucasian SFSR, Soviet Union (present-day Azerbaijan) • Died — 23 December 2023 • Place of death — Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia • Occupation — * Composer • conductor • teacher • Genre — Classical

Murad Kajlayev was born on 15 January 1931 in Baku to a Lak family. He graduated from Baku State Conservatoire from the composition class of Boris Zeidman. He was expelled from there for his ardour for practicing non-academic musical genres but soon he was reclaimed. He worked as a teacher at a musical school named after Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in Makhachkala, as a chief conductor of the Dagestan Radio Symphonic Orchestra (1957–1958), artistic director of the Dagestan Philharmonic Hall (1963–1964) and secretary of administration of the Union of Soviet Composers (from 1968). He is the composer of the current anthem of Dagestan used since 2016. Kajlayev died on 23 December 2023, at the age of 92.

His father was Magomed Davudovich (1894-1963; otolaryngologist, Doctor of Medical Sciences), his mother was Yelena Mikhailovna (1908-1983; phoniatrician). He was married to Valida Islamovna Kajlayeva. His son is Hadjimurat Kajlayev (born 1962).