Mirza Ibrahimov (

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: Mirzə İbrahimov) (15 October 1911, Eyvaq, Sarab – 17 December 1993, Baku) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani writer, playwright, state and public figure. Mirza Ibrahimov was born in the village of Eyvaq in northwestern

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, in the present-day Sarab County, 11 km south of

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. In 1918, he moved with his father to Baku. His originality is from the Beyish or Bayish tribe in the village of Eyvaq, where they still live there. As the Chairman of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet in Azerbaijan (1954-1958) he pushed hard to make

a second official language, in addition to Russian. He went to

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to speak to the Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet, who agreed with him, convinced that the idea made sense. In 1956, the Azerbaijan Communist Party Central Committee amended Azerbaijan's Constitution to include: (1) Azerbaijani is the State language of the Azerbaijan Republic, and (2) National minorities living in Azerbaijan shall be guaranteed the right to develop independently and use their national language in their cultural as well as state organizations. Between 1970 and 1986 he was the Chairman of the Writers' Union of Azerbaijan. Mirza Ibrahimov died in 1993 in Baku.

Works

# Giqantlar ölkəsi, 1932 # Həyat üçün, 1934 # Həyat (pyes), 1937 # Böyük demokrat (Molla Nəsrəddin), 1939 # Həyat və ədəbiyyat, 1947 # Azad, 1949 # Gələcək üçün, 1949 # Salam sənə Rusiya!, 1950 # Gələcək gün, 1951 # Böyük dayaq, 1957 # Mədinənin ürəyi, 1961 # Böyük şairimiz Sabir, 1962 # Murovdağın ətəyində, 1964 # Ədəbi qeydlər, 1970 # Pərvanə, 1971 # Pərvizin həyatı, 1975 # Anama deyərəm ha!, 1986 1911 births 1993 deaths 20th-century Azerbaijani dramatists and playwrights Soviet writers Azerbaijani writers Azerbaijani dramatists and playwrights Iranian emigrants to the Soviet Union Azerbaijani people of Iranian descent Members of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Heroes of Socialist Labour Stalin Prize winners Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour People from Sarab, East Azerbaijan Burials at Alley of Honor Honored Art Workers of the Azerbaijan SSR {{Azerbaijan-writer-stub