Liudmila Gatagova
Liudmila Sultanovna Gatagova () is a Russian historian, essayist, and the Research Fellow at the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences of Lezgin descent, specializing in international relations and history of the Russian Empire and the Caucasus until the Revolution of 1917, including the crystallization of the Russian national identity and the accompanied ethnic conflicts within the state. Gatagova was a 1999 Awardee of the Grant for Projects in the Humanities by the American Council of Learned Societies, "doing exemplary work in the humanities during a time of crisis and contraction."