Balash Abbaszadeh
Birth date:
20 April 1950
Death date:
07 May 2005
Balash Abbaszadeh was born in Baku.
He studied at the Faculty of History of Azerbaijan State University (1973-1978).
He worked as deputy director of the Khanlar (now Goygol) district inter-school educational-production complex (1978-1979), director of the Garabaghlar village secondary school (1979-1982), methodologist of the educational-methodical cabinet at the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1982-1983), inspector of the labor training and vocational guidance department (1988-1989). He worked as an assistant to the chairman of the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1989-1996). This period also includes the position of assistant to Heydar Aliyev. Since 1992, he has been the founder and editor-in-chief of the public political and journalistic newspaper "Sirdash", published in Azerbaijani, Turkish, Russian, Persian, Armenian languages, and since 2004, he has been republished.
In 1996, he was arrested on trumped-up charges. After serving part of the sentence, he was released in 1999 thanks to a pardon decree. He is the author of 27 books, 4 monographs, and 39 methodological manuals. In addition to literary and artistic creativity, he worked as an author, compiler, editor of didactic works, and translator of a collection of Chuvash tales and legends. He is the author of the first book written in Azerbaijan about Heydar Aliyev (“Shining like the Sun”).
Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences (1992), corresponding member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Creativity (1993), and laureate of the “Golden Pen” award, Balash Abbaszadeh died in 2005.