Tahir Pashazadeh
Birth date:
12 January 1930
Death date:
28 April 1990
Tahir Pashazadeh was born in Baku.
He studied at the Faculty of Oriental Studies of Azerbaijan State University (1953) and the Higher Party School in Moscow.
For a while he worked as a literature teacher at the Baku Oil Technical School. Later, he became the first secretary of the Lenin (Sabunchu) district Komsomol committee (1956). He was elected a deputy of the 26th Baku Commissar (Sabayil) district Soviet (1972-1976). From 1958 until the end of his life, he worked in various leadership positions at the Azerbaijan State Television and Radio Committee. He was the editor-in-chief of the Persian editorial office of the foreign department of the Azerbaijan Republic Radio. In 1976, he was appointed deputy chairman of the Azerbaijan State Television and Radio Committee. He translated Jawahirlal Nehru's book "Letters to My Daughter" into Azerbaijani. He is a laureate of the "Golden Pen" award.
Orientalist, public and political figure, and translator Tahir Pashazadeh died in 1990.
