Altay Zahidov

Actor

Birth date:

16 May 1933

Death date:

13 November 2017


Altay Zahidov was born in Baku.

He studied at Azerbaijan State University (1957).

He worked as a correspondent and commentator at the Azerbaijan State Television and Radio Broadcasting Committee (1954-1974), and as the head of the correspondent station of Azerbaijan Television and Radio in Moscow (1974-1991).

In 1991, he was elected secretary of the Azerbaijan Journalists' Union.

He was a senior lecturer and professor at the Faculty of Journalism of Western University.

Altay Zahidov died in 2017.