Samed Vurgun

Samed Vurgun (Azeri: Səməd Vurğun, in Cyrillic alphabet: Russian СəмəдВурғун, : СамедВургун; true name Samed Vekilov , complete Azeri name: Səməd Yusif oğlu Vəkilov; March 21st or May 12th 1906, Yuxarı Salaxlı, Qazakh - May 27th 1956, Bakou) was an Azeri poet and Soviet, worker of arts honoured with the Soviet republic of Azerbaïdjan and member of the Academy of Science of the Soviet socialist Republic of Azerbaïdjan as from 1945. Vurgun gained the price of state of the USSR for these dramas: in 1941 for Vagif (1937) and in 1942 for Farkhad and Shirin (1941).

Vurgun started to publish in 1924. The Russian dramatic Theater of the state of Azerbaïdjan and the streets of Bakou and Moscow bear its name.

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