Ashraf Yusifzadeh
Birth date:
05 December 1906
Death date:
07 March 1963
Ashraf Yusifzadeh was born in the Sarkhanli village of Sharur.
He studied at the first-grade school in Sharur (1921-1925), was an activist of the school's drama club.
After five years of education, he went to Irevan and entered the "Rabfak" (workers' faculty). At the same time, he attended Yunus Nuri's drama club Irevan. Here he played episodic roles and participated in mass scenes. He was accepted into the cast of the Irevan Azerbaijan Theater troupe. In 1928, the Irevan State Azerbaijan Drama Theater was established on the basis of this collective. In the theater's first performance, he played the role of a servant in Jean Baptiste Moliere's comedy "The Forced Doctor". In 1930, he came to Baku and entered the Faculty of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute. In 1932, he was accepted as an actor into the troupe of the Baku Turkish Workers' Theater. He came to Ganja with the collective in 1933 and acted at the Ganja State Drama Theater until the end of his life.
Honored Artist (1943), People's Artist (1955) Ashraf Yusifzadeh died in Ganja in 1963 and was buried in the Savzakar (Sardabali) cemetery.
Actor Ashraf Yusifzadeh is the husband of actress Ramziyya Veyselova.
