Mirza Ibrahimov

Mirza Ibrahimov was born in the village of Eyvag near the city of Sarab in South Azerbaijan. In 1918, they moved to Baku.

He studied at the two-year preparatory department of the Azerbaijan State Scientific Research Institute and the postgraduate course of the Leningrad Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1937).

After his father died in 1919, he worked as a hired laborer in the villages of Balakhani and Zabrat from a young age. He started working in the political department of the Nakhchivan MTS - as the editor of the "Surat" newspaper (1933). He worked as the director of the Azerbaijan State and Ballet Theater, the head of the Department of Art Works of the XKS. In 1941, while in South Azerbaijan, he worked as the editor-in-chief of the "Vatan yundo" newspaper. In 1942, he participated in meetings with fighters of the 416th division in Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, etc. military districts in the Far East. He served as the People's Commissar of Education of the Azerbaijan SSR (1942-1946). When the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences was established, he was elected one of its first full members (1945). He served as Chairman of the Board of the Azerbaijan Writers' Union (1946-1954), First Secretary (1965-1975), Secretary of the Board of the USSR Writers' Union (1965-1975), Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Republic (1946-1950), Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan Republic (1954-1958), and was elected a member of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan. He was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. During his tenure as director of the Institute of Language and Literature named after Nizami of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, he organized the study of linguistics and literary studies, and contributed to the creation of the three-volume "History of Azerbaijani Literature" (1948-1954). He headed the department of the history of 19th century Azerbaijani literature at the institute (1960-1970), until the end of his life he was the head of the department of South Azerbaijan literature of the Institute of Literature named after Nizami of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, a member of the editorial board of the multi-volume "History of Azerbaijani Literature".

His first poem "Dug-out well" was published in the collection "April flames" (1930). He is the author of "Future day", "Big support", "Flyer", "Love", "Good man", "Storm bird", "Peasant girl" and other novels, plays and stories.

People's Writer (1961), Academician of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences (1945), Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1950), Laureate of the Azerbaijan State Prize (1965), Laureate of the International Nehru Prize (1979), Honored Artist (1941), Hero of Socialist Labor (1981) Mirza Ibrahimov died in 1993 and was buried in the Alley of Honor.