Khayyāṭ mayah'dār va kaf'bīn: Persian 1398

Fazil Abdulovich Iskander (1929-2016) was a writer of Iranian descent from Abkhazia. This writer studied at the prestigious Maxim Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow and started his career as a journalist. He spent most of his life in Moscow. In the former Soviet Union, he was known more for introducing Caucasian life and wrote his works mostly in Russian. He has written several stories, the best known of which is Zashita Chika, which starred a lovable, mischievous young boy named Chik. Iskandar died on July 31, 2016, at the age of 87 in his home in Perdelkino after a long period of illness. Iskander, who is the most well-known Abkhazian writer, first gained fame in the mid-1960s along with other representatives of the "Young Prose" movement such as Yuri Kazakov and Vasily Aksyonov, mostly for the story Sozvezdie kozlotura (Goat-Buffalo Constellation), which It is known that one of his best stories was written in 1966. The story is written from the point of view of a young newspaper salesman who returns to his native Abkhazia, joins the staff jirga of a local newspaper, and then embarks on an advertising campaign for a newly developed domestic animal created by crossing an ordinary goat and a goat. A mountain in the Western Caucasus had emerged. The story was a prominent satire on the genetic and agricultural campaigns of Trofim Lysenko and Khrushchev, which was heavily criticized for portraying the Soviet Union in an unsavory light.