Nationality Azerbaijani Occupation Journalist | Name Mahyaddin Abbasov Died 1974 | |
Born c. 1910 Nukha (Sheki) Other names Pashazadeh, M.Pazhaohlu, Goran, Mubariz Organization Nukha fahlasi (Nukha labor) | ||
Mahyaddin Abbasov (Azerbaijani: Məhyəddin Paşa oğlu Abbasov) was a celebrated journalist, writer and publicist in Soviet Azerbaijan, then part of the USSR.
Mahyaddin Abbasov was born in 1910 in Nukha city in a labor family. He lost his parents from the very childhood and started to work as a labor in cacoon department of Nukha silk factory.
He enters Azerbaijan State Pedogogical University in 1927. After graduating, he works as a teacher first at different schools of Nuxa, then at Nuxa Pedogogical technical school. He participates in World War, in 1944 gets wounded from splinter and loses functions of left arm and gets released.
He has worked as director of department at "Nukha fahlasi" ("Nukha labor") newspaper in 1944, has become the chief editor in 1945 and has worked there till the end of his life.
Gulustan poem of Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh has been published in "Nukha fahlasi" newspaper for the first time during Mahyaddin Abbasov.
Mahyaddin Abbasov has been rewarded as Honoured Culture worker of Republic in 1971 (Honoured journalist name was not existing yet by that time).
Publicistic articles and short satirist stories were holding the main part of M.Abbasov's activities. He was writing under pseudonym "Pashazade" in the pages of newspaper he was controlling.
Next to his editorial activities M.Abbasov has continued to his pedogogical works and worked as a physics teacher at school №10 named by M.Qorki (R.B.Afandiyev nowadays).
M.Abbasov died in 1974 on 28 of December. Before his funeral his corpse was put in the meeting hall of City Department and very crowded and remarkable farewell ceremony.