Jamshid Amirov
Birth date:
10 February 1914
Death date:
29 December 1982
Jamshid Amirov was born in Nakhchivan.
In 1934, he entered the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute and at the same time collaborated with republican newspapers. Having left the institute in his final year, he did not show any desire to work in his specialty (engineer-geologist).
He worked as a responsible secretary in the “Azerbaijani Jurnali” newspaper (1937-1940), as a department head in the “Ganj Ishchi” newspaper (1940-1941), as a responsible secretary in the “Bolshevik” newspaper (1941), and as an engineer-geologist in the “Azizbeyovneft” company (1941). During World War II, he was on the front line as an officer in Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and China. After being discharged from the army, he actively participated in the construction of “Amustral”. Then he worked as a department head in the newspaper "Azerbaijani Youth", a special correspondent in the newspaper "Soviet Trade" (Moscow), editor-in-chief in "Neftneshr", deputy editor in the magazine "Azerbaijani Oil Economy", and department head in the newspaper "Baku". For a while he was the director of the Baku Finance-Credit Technical School (1969-1972). He began his literary work in the 1940s with essays, feuilletons and stories. His first printed essay "Minutes, seconds..." was published in the newspaper "Azerbaijani Youth" (1946). He is considered the founder of the detective genre in Azerbaijan.
Jamshid Amirov died in 1982.
