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Mar 21, 1906 Yuxarı Salahlı, Qazakh District, Azerbaijan Died on 27 May 1956 (aged 50)
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About Samad Vurgun
- Samad Vurgun (Azerbaijani: S?m?d Vurgun, born Samad Vakilov, March 21, 1906 – May 27, 1956) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet poet, dramatist, public figure, first People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1943), academician of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (1945), laureate of two USSR State Prizes of second degree (1941, 1942), and member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1940.The Azerbaijan State Russian Dramatic Theatre and streets in Baku and Moscow, and formerly the city of Hovk in Armenia, are named after him. Samad Vurgun is the first poet in the literature history of Azerbaijan who was nominated with the title of “The Poet of Public”. Biography Samad Vurgun was born on March 21, 1906, in Salahly village of Qazakh Uyezd, at present Qazakh Rayon of Azerbaijan Republic.
- Samad's mother died when he was 6 years old and he was in charge of his father and Ayshe khanim-grandmother from mother's side.
- After graduating from school his family moved to Qazakh and Samad entered teacher's seminary of Qazakh with his elder brother Mekhdikhan Vekilov (1902–1975).
- In 1922, their father and a year later their grandmother had died and concern for the future poet and his brother passed to their cousin Khangizi Vekilova.
- He taught literature at village schools of Qazakh, Ganja and Quba.
- He studied at Moscow State University for 2 years (1929–1930) and then continued his education at Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute.In 1945 the poet was elected the full member of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan SSR.
- Furthermore, the republican Society of Cultural Relations with Iran was founded in Baku in that year and S.Vurghun was assigned as the Chairman of this society.
- The establishment of the spiritual bridge between Azerbaijan and Iran was achieved through the works of the poet.Samad Vurghun was assigned the Vice President of Academy of Sciences of the Republic in 1953 in regard with the changes in the life of the country and Republic.
- He introduced important issues to the social sciences by discussing urgent problems and the project of scientific publication. In October, 1955, the poet fell ill in his visit to Vietnam as a member of soviet delegation.
- As a result, he was hospitalized in Beijing, China.
- However, he didn't lose his hope and returned to his active life.
- He wrote short poems when he was at hospital.
- He returned to Azerbaijan after a few weeks but his health condition got worse.In 1945, he was chosen a full member of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan SSR and deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union of the 2nd and 4th convocations (1946–1956). Samad Vurgun died on May 27, 1956 and was buried in Baku, in the Alley of Honor.
