It is aptly named after the Dagestan ASSR, the regional government of Dagestan during the former Soviet Union.
Khasaev was born January 2, 1951, in the village of Jirabachi, Kaitagski region, Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
She is the daughter of journalist Olga Garitskaya and architect Vadim Skugarev, who was the head of a chair of decorative and applied arts (graphic arts dept.) at the Dagestan state teacher training institute (Makhachkala, Dagestan ASSR) since 1973.
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In 1944 his ancestors were forcibly resettled from the mountains to the territory of a gorge in Aukhovsky (Novalaksky) District in the then-Chechen-Ingush ASSR, which was vacated following the deportation of the Chechens to Siberia and subsequently became part of the Dagestan ASSR.