Azad Sharifov

Azad Sharifov (Azad Sharif) was born in Baku.

In 1949, he entered the Azerbaijan State Conservatory, but completed his education at the Faculty of Journalism of Azerbaijan State University.

During his student years, he began to collaborate with the newspaper “Azerbaijani Physical Trainer” (“Fizkulturnik Azerbaydzhana”), and in 1951 he was accepted as a literary employee of this newspaper. He worked as a special correspondent for Azerbaijan of the newspaper “Pionerskaya Pravda” (1954), deputy editor and editor of the newspaper “Molodyoj Azerbaydzhana” (1958-1962), deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine “Vokruq Sveta” (1965), and special correspondent for Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan of the newspaper “Izvestiya” (1966-1969). For many years, he worked in Komsomol, party and state bodies. He was the head of the cultural department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, chairman of the State Cinematography Committee (1979-1988), chairman of the Azerbaijan State Telegraph Agency - AzerTAc (then Azerinform) (1988-1992). The titles of the books he prepared and published during those years say a lot: "Undeclared War", "Two-Year Tragedy", "Breaking the Information Blockade". Together with the then Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan Ismet Gayibov, he prepared and published an album called "Armenian Terrorism", for which the ASALA terrorist organization issued a death sentence. He remained an active journalist until the end of his life. His book "Years Pass - They Cannot Be Returned" was a kind of culmination of his creative life.

He was engaged in pedagogical activity for a long time. 

Azad Sharifov died in 2009 and was buried in the Bulbula settlement cemetery.