Background
VURGUN, Samed was born on March 21, 1906 in village Yukhari Salauli, Azerbaydzhan Son of a peasant.
Azerbaydzhani poet playwright and soc worker
VURGUN, Samed was born on March 21, 1906 in village Yukhari Salauli, Azerbaydzhan Son of a peasant.
1924 graduate Kazakh Teachers’ Seminary. 1929-1931 studied at 2nd Moscow University. Then postgraduate studies in Baku.
From 1924 taught at schools in Kazakh, Kuba and Kirovabad. 1924 first work printed. Founded new school of poetics in Azerbaydzhan
Deputy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet of 1st—4th convocations. Wrote articles on Pushkin, Mayakovskiy, Nizami, Gorky, et cetera Translated into Azer: Pushkin’s Yevgeniy Onegin (Eugene Onegin).
Participant of Shota Rustaveli’s “The Hero in the Tiger Skin”. Nizami’s poem "Leyli and Medzhnun”. Gorky's Devushka i smert.
(The Firl and Death). Shevchenko’s “Katerina”. Verse of Chavchavadze, Dzhambul, et cetera
Member, Azer Academy of Sciences from 1945. Communist Party member from 1940.
