Hadji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev (Azeri: Hacı Zeynalabdin Tağıyev) (January 25th, 1838, Bakou - 1e September 1924, Mardakan) was a tycoon of industry and an Azeri philanthropist .

Zeynalabdin Taghiyev was born in a poor family shoe-makers in the old city from Bakou and early started to learn masonry. In the middle of the years 1860, he had become a property developer. During the first boom of oil in Bakou in 1873, Taghiyev and three associated buy a piece of ground where they find oil after a long drilling campaign in 1877, becoming thus instantaneously millionaire.

Taghiyev invests its fortune not only in the oil but also in much of important projects, like the first textile factory of Azerbaïdjan or of the industrial fish shops. It sold its interests in oil in Anglo-Russian Oil Company for 5 million Rouble S.

In 1920, the residence of Taghiyev is confiscated by the government of the Soviet S and it is exiled with its residence of summer, where it dies on September 1st 1924. In spite of the Soviet efforts to remove the memories related to Taghiyev, he is always recognized in Azerbaïdjan like an example of generosity and philanthropy.

He was married twice, the second in 1896 in Sona, the girl junior by the General Balakishi Arablinski. He had two wire of its first marriage and two wire and three girls of its second marriage.

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