Famous people of Shusha

The people of Shusha made it the pearl of the Caucasus, the cradle of our culture, the mugham-singing heart of Azerbaijan

Famous people of Shusha

Famous people of Shusha

Bulbul

Bulbul, (Murtuza Rza oglu Mammadov, 22 June 1897 – 26 September 1961) was a famous Azerbaijani and Soviet opera tenor, …

Fikrat Amirov

Folk Melodies and Symphonic Masterpieces: Fikrat Amirov (1922-1984) by Jala Garibova No doubt the music of Fikrat Amirov has been heard …

Latif Karimov

Also known as Latif Huseyn oglu Karimov Artist designer author carpet weaver Latif Karimov was a notable Azerbaijani carpet designer, …

Jabbar Garyaghdioghlu

Jabbar Garyaghdioghlu (31 March 1861 – 20 April 1944) was an Azerbaijani folk singer (khananda). He is known as the …

Khurshidbanu Natavan

Khurshidbanu Natavan (15 August 1832, Shusha – 1 October 1897, Shusha) was a female Azerbaijani poet and philanthropist. She is …

Samad bey Mehmandarov

Samad bey Sadykhbey oghlu Mehmandarov (16 October 1855 – 12 February 1931) was an Azerbaijani General of the Artillery in …

Uzeyir Hajibayov

UZEYIR HAJIBAYOV: A MUSICAL PIONEER by Prof. Ramiz Zohrabov “Every nation wants its composers to write in a language that …

Zulfugar Hajibeyov

Zulfugar Hajibeyov (17 April 1884 – 30 September 1950) was an Azerbaijani composer and a member of a family noted …

Molla Panah Vagif

Molla Panah Vagif was an 18th-century Azerbaijani poet, the founder of the realism genre in the Azerbaijani poetry and also …

Ibrahim Khalil Khan

Ibrahim Khalil Khan Javanshir (1732–1806) was an Azerbaijani, Turkic khan of the Karabakh Khanate from the Javanshir family, who succeeded …

Mehdigulu Khan Javanshir

Mehdigulu Khan Javanshir (1763 or 1772–1845) was the last khan of the Karabakh Khanate, functioning as its head from 1806 …

Panah Ali Khan Javanshir

Panah Ali Khan Javanshir (1693-Sarijali-1763, Shiraz) was the founder and first ruler of the Karabakh Khanate. Panah Ali Khan was …

Bulbuljan

Born as Abdulbagi Ali oghlu Zulalov (1841-1927) Bulbuljan was an Azerbaijani singer of folk music and mugam (an original improvisational …

Gasim bey Zakir

Gasim bey Zakir was an Azerbaijani poet of the 19th century and one of the founders of the critical realism …

Haji Husu

Haji Husu (1830-1898) was a mugam singer. He was born Husu Niftali oghlu Kazimli around 1830 in Shusha. Haji Husu …

Hasan Ali Khan Garadaghi

Hasan Ali Khan Garadaghi was an Azerbaijani philologist, writer, poet and teacher. He is mainly known for his contribution to …

Karim bey Mehmandarov

Karim bey (Abdulkarim) Mustafa bey oghlu Mehmandarov (2 December 1854, Shusha-20 December 1929, Shusha) was a medical doctor. He was …

Mehdigulu Khan Usmiyev

Mehdigulu Khan Usmiyev (1855, Shusha-1900, Tiflis) was a lyrical poet of Azerbaijan of Kumyk and Javanshir descent, a lieutenant colonel …

Mir-Mohsun Navvab

Mir-Mohsun Navvab (1833, Shusha-1918, Shusha) occupies a prominent place in the history of Azerbaijani culture as the last representative of …

Mirza Sadig

Mirza Sadig (Sadiqjan-Sadig Asadoghlu, 1846, Shusha-1902, Shusha), was an Azerbaijani tar-player (sazanda) known for developing the Azerbaijani tar (or Caucasus …

Najaf bey Vazirov

Najaf bey Fatali oghlu Vazirov (17 February 1854-9 July 1926) was an Azerbaijani playwright and journalist. He was born in …

Safarali bey Valibeyov

Safarali bey Valibeyov is an outstanding Azerbaijani teacher. He was born in 1861 in the city of Shusha. Safarali bey …

Abdurrahim bey Hagverdiyev

Abdurrahim bey Asadbey oghlu Hagverdiyev was the Azerbaijani writer, a playwright, a translator, a publicist, a theatrical and public figure, …

Ahmad Aghdamski

Ahmad Aghdamski, also known by the stage name of Ahmad Bashir oghlu Badalbeyli (5 January 1884, Shusha – 1 April …

Ahmad Ağaoğlu

Ahmad bey Mirza Hasan oghlu Agayev, also known as Ahmad Ağaoğlu was a prominent public figure and politician, Azerbaijani and …

Bahram bey Akhundov

Bahram bey Jafar oghlu Akhundov was born in Shusha in 1872. During the years 1893-1895 he studied medicine and nature …

Ali Zulalov

Ali Abdul oghlu Zulalov (13 September 1893 – 18 February 1963) was an Azerbaijani opera singer and Honored Artist of …

Barat Shakinskaya

Barat Habib gizi Shakinskaya (28 June 1914 – 14 January 1999) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet stage and film actress. …

Majid Behbudov

Behbudov Majid Behbudali oghlu (18 April 1873 – 6 September 1945) is an Azerbaijani khananda. Majid Behbudov was born on …

Firidun bey Kocharli

Firidun bey Ahmadagha oghlu Kocharli was born on January 26, 1863 in Shusha. In 1872, Mirza Karim entered the school …

Gamar Sheyda

Gamar Sheyda (1881-1933) was a poet and playwright from Azerbaijan. Gamar Sheyda was born in Shusha in 1881 as Gamarnisa …

Hashim bey Vazirov

Hashim bey Miriman oghlu Vazirov (1868-1916) was an Azerbaijani journalist, writer and publisher. Hashim bey Vazirov was born and had …

Islam Abdullayev

Islam Abdullayev (also known as Segah Islam) (December 1876 – 22 September 1964) was an Azerbaijani khananda, Honored Art Worker …

Jalal Garyaghdi

Jalal Maharram oghlu Garyaghdi (2 June 1914, Shusha – June 2001 Baku, Azerbaijan) was an Azerbaijani monumentalist sculptor and People’s …

Jeyhun Hajibeyli

Jeyhun Hajibeyli (1891-1962) was an Azerbaijani publicist, journalist and ethnographer. Jeyhun was born in Shusha, and was a brother of …

Khan Shushinski

Khan Shushinski was one of the most famous Azerbaijani mugham singers. Khan Shushinski (Isfandiyar Aslan oghlu Javanshirov’s stage name) was …

Latif Safarov

Latif Bashir oghlu Safarov (30 September 1920, Shusha – 9 December 1963, Baku) was an Azerbaijani actor and movie director. …

Munavvar Rzayeva

Munavvar Rzayeva (6 June 1929 – 6 June 2004) was an Azerbaijani sculptor and the first monumental female sculptor, Honored …

Nariman bey Narimanbeyov

Nariman bey Hashim oghlu Narimanbeyov (1889-1937), also known as Nariman bey Narimanbeyli, was an Azerbaijani lawyer and statesman who served …

Polad Bülbüloğlu

Polad Bülbüloğlu (4 February 1945) is an Azerbaijani singer, actor, politician, and diplomat. Bülbüloğlu became famous in the Soviet Union …

Shamsi Badalbeyli

Shamsi Badal oghlu Badalbeyli (23 February 1911, Shusha – 23 May 1987, Baku) was an Azerbaijani theatre director and actor. …

Soltan Hajibeyov

Soltan Ismayil oghlu Hajibeyov, (5 May 1919, Shusha – 19 September 1974, Baku) was an Azerbaijani composer and People’s Artist …

Suleyman Alasgarov

Suleyman Alasgarov (1924-2000) Azerbaijani composer, pedagogue, professor, People’s Artist of Azerbaijan and author of two operas, a few musical comedies, …

Suleyman Sani Akhundov

Suleyman Sani Akhundov (3 October 1875, Shushi – 29 March 1939, Baku) was an Azerbaijani playwright , journalist, writer , …

Sureyya Aghaoghlu

Sureyya Aghaoghlu (1903, Shusha – 29 December 1989, Istanbul) was a Turkish-Azerbaijani writer, jurist, and the first female lawyer in …

Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli

Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli (1887-1943) was a prominent Azerbaijani writer and public figure. Chamanzaminli was born in Shusha and spent his …

Zakir Baghirov

Zakir Nariman oghlu Baghirov (21 December 1929 – 31 March 1989) was the Minister of Culture of the Azerbaijan SSR, Deputy …

Malik-Aslanov Khudadat bey

Malik-Aslanov Khudadat bey Agha oghlu was born in Shusha, in 1879. He was a scientist, state and political figure. In …

Rashid Behbudov

Rashid Behbudov (14 December 1915, Tbilisi – 9 June 1989, Moscow) was an Azerbaijani singer and actor. He sang in …

Farhad Badalbeyli

Farhad Shamsi oglu Badalbeyli is an outstanding Azerbaijani pianist and composer. He was born in 1947 in the family of …