Samad Vurgun
Samad Vurgun | |
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| Born | Samad Yusif oghlu Vekilov 21 March 1906 |
| Died | 27 May 1956 (aged 50) |
| Occupation | Poet |
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Samad Vurgun (Azerbaijani: Səməd Vurğun [sæˈmæd vuɾˈɣun]; born Samad Yusif oghlu Vekilov; 21 March 1906 – 27 May 1956) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet poet, dramatist, public figure, first People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1943), academician of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (1945), laureate of two Stalin Prizes of second degree (1941, 1942), and member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1940.
The Azerbaijan State Academic Russian Drama Theatre and streets in Baku and Moscow, and formerly the city of Hovk in Armenia, are named after him.
Samad Vurgun is the first poet in the literature history of Azerbaijan who was given the title “The Poet of Public”.