18 Notable alumni of
Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University
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Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University is 1348th in the world, 295th in Asia, and 7th in Azerbaijan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ahmad Javad
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- literary criticpoettranslatorediting staff
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Ahmad Javad was an Azerbaijani poet who is best known for writing the words of the National Anthem of Azerbaijan used under the 1918–1920 Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan, and again since 1991, and another poem named Chirpynirdi gara deniz. He was later arrested by the Soviet regime and executed on October 13, 1937, accused of trying to spread Musavat-inspired nationalism to young Azerbaijani poets.
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Hamo Sahyan
- Enrolled in Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University
- Studied in 1939
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- translatorpoet
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Hamo Sahyan was an Armenian poet and translator.
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Ali Naghiyev
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- politician
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Ali Naghi oglu Naghiyev is an Azerbaijani Colonel general, who serves as Chief of State Security Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
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Mammad Araz
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- poet
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Mammad Araz was an Azerbaijani poet. His pen name, Araz, is the Azerbaijani spelling for the Aras river.
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Mehdi Huseynzade
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- partisanmilitary personnel
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Lieutenant Mehdi Huseynzade was an Azerbaijani guerrilla and scout during World War II. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on 11 April 1957.
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Ilyas Afandiyev
- Enrolled in Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University
- Studied in 1938
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- writerliterary criticplaywright
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Ilyas Muhammad oglu Afandiyev was an Azerbaijani and Soviet writer, member of Azerbaijan Union of Writers (1940), Honored Art Worker of Azerbaijan (1960), laureate of the State Prize of Azerbaijan (1972) and People’s Writer of Azerbaijan (1979).
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Said Rustamov
- Enrolled in Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University
- Studied in 1932
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- music teachercomposerconductor
- Biography
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Said Rustamov, born Mir-Jabbar Ali oglu Seyid-Rustamzadeh (12 May 1907, Erivan – 10 June 1983, Baku), was a Soviet and Azerbaijani composer, conductor and pedagogue.
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Maqsud Shayxzoda
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- writerpoet
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Maqsud Shayxzoda was a Soviet-Uzbek writer, poet, playwright; literary and linguistic scholar, author of translations of classical works of world literature into Uzbek (Shakespeare, Pushkin, Lermontov, Akhundov, Rustaveli, Charents, Mayakovsky, Byron and others) and educator. He was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Uzbek SSR in 1964. By nationality, he was an Azerbaijani.
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Hasan Abdullayev
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- physicistnuclear physicist
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Hasan Abdullayev was a leading Soviet and Azerbaijani physicist, scientist and public official, who served as President of the National Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR. He was a Doctor of Sciences in physics and mathematics, Professor of physics and mathematics, Director of the Institute of Mathematics and Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR, full Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR, corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences, and in 1970-1983 was the longest-serving President of the National Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR. He was also an elected member of the Azerbaijan SSR Parliament, and the elected member of the 8th, 9th and 10th convocations of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Academician Abdullayev was one of the founders of the Soviet semiconductors physics and a leading scientist in new technologies. He made an outstanding contribution to the development of electronics, astrophysics, aeronautics, medicine, biophysics and defense industries. Academician Abdullayev was the author of 585 Soviet and foreign patents, including 171 secret and 65 top secret patents, author of 28 scientific books (monographs), over 800 journal and encyclopedia articles in English, Russian and Azerbaijani languages.
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Yevda Abramov
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- politicianlegislator
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Yevda Sasunovich Abramov was an Azerbaijani politician. He served as a Member of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan from 2005 until his death in 2019. and Deputy chairman of Azerbaijani National Assembly's Committee on Human Rights.
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Yosef Shagal
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- diplomatwritertelevision presenterpoliticianjournalist
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Yosef Shagal is an Israeli politician and former journalist, of Azerbaijani Jewish origin. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Russian-immigrant dominated Yisrael Beiteinu between 2006 and 2009. From 2012 until 2015, he was the ambassador of Israel to Belarus.
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Salahaddin Kazimov
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- military officer
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Salahaddin Hasan oglu Kazimov was a Soviet Internal Troops Major general and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Kazimov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 16 October 1943 for his leadership of an artillery battalion during the Battle of the Dnieper. In a twelve-day period during the battle, his battalion's guns were reported to have killed up to 180 German soldiers and destroyed eleven tanks. Postwar, Kazimov served in the Internal Troops and became Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Azerbaijan SSR. Kazimov and Minister of Internal Affairs Arif Heydarov were shot by an officer of the Shusha prison. He was wounded in an armed attack on the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Azerbaijan SSR and died on July 2, 1978.
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Fatma Gadri
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- actor
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Fatma Gadir qizi Gadri, also spelled Qadri, Kadri, or Kadry (14 April 1907 – 29 February 1968) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani stage and film actress. People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1943).
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Abulhasan Alakbarzadeh
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- writer
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Abulhasan Alibaba oglu Alakbarzadeh was a Soviet Azerbaijani writer known under the pen- name Abulhasan, People's Writer of Azerbaijan (1979).
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Ramin Qurbanov
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- juristuniversity teacherjudgelaw professor
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Ramin Afad oglu Gurbanov is an Azerbaijani lawyer, scholar, and the current president of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) of the Council of Europe. He is also a judge of the Baku Court of Appeal, a member of the Management Board of the Union of Associations of Judges of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and the Head of the Department of International Law of the Institute of Law and Human Rights at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. He is a Doctor of Law and Professor of the Department of Civil Law Disciplines at the Russian University of Economics.
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Bagrat Ulubabyan
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- prose writerhistorian
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Bagrat Arshaki Ulubabyan was an Armenian writer and historian, known most prominently for his work on the histories of Nagorno-Karabakh and Artsakh.
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Sharif Aghayar
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- writer
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Sharif Aghayar is an Azerbaijani writer.
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Rahid Ulusel
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- university teacherman of lettersphilosophercultural studies scholarliterary critic
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Rahid Ulusel is an Azerbaijani scientist, senior researcher at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, and professor at Western University (2005-2007).
