Tamara Musakhanova

Tamara Nahamievna Musakhanova (; ; born January 31, 1924 — February 27, 2014) was a Soviet sculptor, and ceramist of Mountain Jewish origin. Member of Union of Artists in the former Soviet Union and in Israel. She was also an Honored Artist of Dagestan.

Biography Tamara Musakhanova managed to finish several art schools in different cities. She began her education at the pedagogical school in Makhachkala where she met her husband, Abram Vladimirovich Fridberg. She then continued her education at the Moscow Kalinin School of industrial art, which she graduated in 1949. She worked in the media of sculpture, painting, and crafts in ceramics and faience before continuing her art education in Alma-Ata.

Since 1990, Musakhanova lived in Israel in Haifa, where she actively participated in the following exhibitions: a group exhibition of repatriates "Omanut ole" (1994), a group show in the gallery "Tsafon" (1998), a solo exhibit in Haifa (1998), an exhibition of artists from the Caucasus in Netanya (1999), artists of the Caucasus in Merkaz ha-music Tel Aviv-Yafo (2000), etc.

Tamara Musakhanova and Abram Fridberg had two children, Michael Fridberg and Love Mataeva.

Musakhanova's brother, Albert Nahamievych Musakhanova, held a doctorate degree in agricultural science and lived in the suburbs of Moscow. Sister Asya Nahamievna Musakhanova, graduated from the university in the Faculty of Philology, she worked at the Makhachkala Pedagogical Institute.

This was the second solo exhibition in memory of Tamara Musakhanova. The first was held in her hometown of Derbent.