Bayram Bayramov

Bayram Bayramov was born in the village of Shikhavand in Aghdam.

He studied at the Aghdam Pedagogical Technical School (1934-1938), the Philology Faculty of Azerbaijan State University (1945-1950).

He worked as a teacher at the Gusanli village incomplete secondary school in the Tartar region (1938-1940), the head of the teaching department at the Musalmanlar village incomplete secondary school (1940-1941), and the headmaster of the Khoruzlu village seven-year school (1941-1942). He was seriously wounded in the battles for Mozdok during the Great Patriotic War (1942). After recovering, he served as the principal of the Goyunbinasi village seven-year school in the Yevlakh region for six months. In 1943, he returned to the war. He was demobilized and became a teacher at the seven-year school in his native village (1944-1945). After higher education, he worked as a teacher at the N. Krupskaya Library Technical School (1948-1955), editor-in-chief of the editorial office of literary drama programs on the radio (1956-1958), literary worker in the editorial office of the "Azerbaijan" magazine (1958-1960), prose consultant at the Azerbaijan Writers' Union (1960-1963), deputy chairman of the "State Publishing House" (1966-1971), chairman of the Committee for People's Assistance to Karabakh (since 1989). He was elected a member of the Council of the Azerbaijan Writers' Union (1991). He became a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1990).

He began his writer career in 1950 with the story "Bridge" published in the "Azerbaijani Youth" newspaper. He is the author of the stories "Without You" (1957), "I Wasn't Beautiful" (1959), "Coolness" ("Firangiz", 1962), "Yellow Grandfather" (1974), etc., and the novels "Separation" (1956), "Leaves" (1958), "Treasure", "My Troubled Love" (1965), "Breaks" (1966-1971), "Worker Brother" (1973), etc.

People's Writer (1984), Laureate of the Azerbaijan State Prize (1990) Bayram Bayramov died in 1994 and was buried in the II Alley of Honor.