Mirza Ibrahimov (
Azerbaijani: Mirzə İbrahimov) (15 October 1911,
Eyvaq
Eyvaq ( fa, ايوق, also Romanized as Īvaq; also known as Eva, Iva, and Ivāh) is a village in Sharabian Rural District, Mehraban District, Sarab County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Ira ...
,
Sarab – 17 December 1993,
Baku
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) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani writer, playwright, state and public figure.
Mirza Ibrahimov was born in the village of Eyvaq in northwestern
Iran
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, in the present-day
Sarab County
Sarab County ( fa, شهرستان سراب) is in East Azerbaijan province, Iran
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, 11 km south of
Duzduzan. In 1918, he moved with his father to
Baku
Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...
.
His originality is from the Beyish or Bayish tribe in the village of Eyvaq, where they still live there.
As the
Chairman of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet in Azerbaijan (1954-1958) he pushed hard to make
Azerbaijani a second official language, in addition to Russian. He went to
Moscow
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to speak to the Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet, who agreed with him, convinced that the idea made sense. In 1956, the
Azerbaijan Communist Party
The Azerbaijan Communist Party ( az, Azərbaycan Kommunist Partiyası; russian: Коммунистическая партия Азербайджана) was the ruling political party in the Azerbaijan SSR, making it effectively a branch of the ...
Central Committee amended Azerbaijan's Constitution to include: (1) Azerbaijani is the State language of the Azerbaijan Republic, and (2) National minorities living in Azerbaijan shall be guaranteed the right to develop independently and use their national language in their cultural as well as state organizations.
Between 1970 and 1986 he was the Chairman of the
Writers' Union of Azerbaijan
The Union of Azerbaijani Writers ( az, Azərbaycan Yazıçılar Birliyi) is the largest public organization of Azerbaijani writers, poets and publicists. It has over 1500 members at present. It was founded on June 13, 1934, when Azerbaijan was a ...
.
Mirza Ibrahimov died in 1993 in Baku.
Works
# Giqantlar ölkəsi, 1932
# Həyat üçün, 1934
# Həyat (pyes), 1937
# Böyük demokrat (Molla Nəsrəddin), 1939
# Həyat və ədəbiyyat, 1947
# Azad, 1949
# Gələcək üçün, 1949
# Salam sənə Rusiya!, 1950
# Gələcək gün, 1951
# Böyük dayaq, 1957
# Mədinənin ürəyi, 1961
# Böyük şairimiz Sabir, 1962
# Murovdağın ətəyində, 1964
# Ədəbi qeydlər, 1970
# Pərvanə, 1971
# Pərvizin həyatı, 1975
# Anama deyərəm ha!, 1986
1911 births
1993 deaths
20th-century Azerbaijani dramatists and playwrights
Soviet writers
Azerbaijani writers
Azerbaijani dramatists and playwrights
Iranian emigrants to the Soviet Union
Azerbaijani people of Iranian descent
Members of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
Heroes of Socialist Labour
Stalin Prize winners
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
People from Sarab, East Azerbaijan
Burials at Alley of Honor
Honored Art Workers of the Azerbaijan SSR
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