Ekhiil Matatov

Ekhiil Ruvinovich Matatov (, ; 1888–1943) was a Soviet Dagestani politician and Judeo-Tat writer. He served as the Prosecutor of the Dagestan ASSR (1931 - ?), People's Commissar of Justice, and Secretary of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Dagestan ASSR. He was also the founder of the world's first Judeo-Tat newspaper, The Toiler . Matatov was repressed in 1938.

Biography Ekhiil Matatov was born in 1888 in Derbent and came from the wealthy Khanukayev family, one of the three richest families in Dagestan before the October Revolution. He served in the army from 1908 to 1910. In 1914, he went to the front and was captured by Austria-Hungary a year later, where he spent three years until 1917. In 1917, he was the only Dagestani to capture the Winter Palace. In 1918, he joined the Bolshevik Party. From March 8 to 16, 1921, he was a delegate to the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party. The publication became the first Judeo-Tat republican newspaper in the world. or 10 years imprisonment. After the start of World War II, while in a Soviet correctional labour camp in the Komi Republic, he asked to go to the front but was not allowed until 1943. A monument to Ekhiil Ruvinovich Matatov was erected in Derbent.