Background
NASYRLI, Yakub was born on November 8, 1899 in Baku. Son of an artisan.
NASYRLI, Yakub was born on November 8, 1899 in Baku. Son of an artisan.
Studied at Literature Faculty, Moscow University.
1909 his family moved to Chardzhou. Worked as apprentice in a shop, as boot-black and as confectioner’s laborer. 1918 volunteer on Transcaspian Front.
Later contributed to Ashkhabad newspapers and journals. 1925 first work printed. Translated into Turkm Russian classic poetry, works of Mayakovsky, South.Ya.
Marshak, K.M. Simonov, Nizami, Navoi, Dzhambul, South. Vurgun, et cetera
Communist Party member from 1925.