Evgeny Kozubsky

Evgeny Ivanovich Kozubsky (; ; 1851–1911 ) was a Russian-Dagestani scholar, educator, and public official. He served as secretary of the Dagestan Regional Statistical Committee (1899–1911). From 1881 to 1902, he taught at the Temir-Khan-Shura Real School and the Temir-Khan-Shura Women's Gymnasium. He was the founder of the Museum of Handicrafts (1910–1911; officially opened posthumously in 1913). Kozubsky authored statistical collections and works on the history, ethnography, and geography of Dagestan and was an avid collector of folk art and crafts.

Biography Evgeny Kozubsky was born in 1851 in Odesa. He graduated from the and the Faculty of History and Philology at Novorossiysk University, where he earned the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences. From 1878 to 1881 he taught history at the Tiflis Gymnasium.

In 1881 he was transferred to Temir-Khan-Shura (now Buynaksk), the capital of the Dagestan Region. acted as inspector of the school, substituted as teacher of French, and was secretary of the gymnasium's pedagogical council (1884–1887). a position to which he was appointed by resolution of the military governor of Dagestan, Prince . His main work in this role was the preparation of the Reviews of the Condition of the Dagestan Region and annual regional reports. and collected folk crafts for the future museum. He also organized the library of the Statistical Committee.

Between 1903 and 1906 he lived in Derbent, where he wrote the monograph The History of the City of Derbent. Memorial Book of the Dagestan Region (1895) An Attempt at a Bibliography of the Dagestan Region (1904) History of the City of Derbent (1906) History of the Dagestan Horse Regiment (1909) In 1894, in volume 19 of the Collection of the Materials for Description of Places and Tribes of the Caucasus, he published an Essay on the History of the City of Temir-Khan-Shura. In 1895 and 1902 he compiled indexes to thirty volumes of the Collection of the Materials for Description of Places and Tribes of the Caucasus. In the 1900s he edited two scientific compilations titled Dagestan Collection. He also contributed to the historical journal Russky Arkhiv (Moscow) and the newspaper Caucasus (Tiflis).

Legacy In 2006 the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Dagestan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences held a scientific conference titled E. I. Kozubsky as a Researcher of the History of Dagestan in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries, dedicated to the 155th anniversary of his birth.