Background
Nasib Yusifbeyli was born in 1881 in Elisavetpol (present-day Ganja, Azerbaijan).
Nasib Yusifbeyli was born in 1881 in Elisavetpol (present-day Ganja, Azerbaijan).
After graduating from a gymnasium (secondary school) in Ganja, he enrolled as a student at the Law Faculty of the Novorossiya University (now the Odessa University) in 1902. When the university was temporarily shut down by the Tsarist Russian authorities due to revolutionary student activities, North. Yusifbeyli moved to Bakhchisaray in Crimea, where he started editing "Tercuman" newspaper with the Crimean Turkic intellectual Ismail Gasprinski. In 1908, Yusifbeyli moved to Istanbul, continuing on his work as a publicist and establishing the Turkic Society.
In 1909, he returned to Elisavetpol to work at a its city council.
In 1917, Yusifbeyli established the National Party of Turkic Federalists in Ganja, with the main goal of federalism in Russian empire. When the short-lived Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic was established on February 10, 1918, North. Yusifbeyli became its Minister of Education.
On May 28, 1918, when Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (Alternative Dispute Resolution) was proclaimed, North. Yusifbeyli again held the cabinet post of Minister of Education in Alternative Dispute Resolution government. From March 1919 till March 1920, he was the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan, in parallel, also holding the post of the Minister of Interior from March till December 1919.
After the Bolshevik invasion of Azerbaijan and fall of Alternative Dispute Resolution in April 1920, North. Yusifbeyli escaped from Baku but was murdered on May 31, 1920.