Zeynal bey Vazirov ( Azerbaijani: Zeynal bəy Mirzə Həmid bəy oğlu Vəzirov; b. 1854,

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- d. 1933,

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) was a public figure and member of the parliament of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

Life

Zeynal bey Vezirov was born in 1854 in the city of Shusha,

Shusha uezd The Shusha ''uezd'' was a county (''uezd'') of the Elizavetpol Governorate of the Russian Empire, and then of the Ganja Governorate of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic with its center in Shusha in 1840–1921. Geography The Shusha ''uezd'' was lo ...

(later renamed Baku) of the Russian Empire. He graduated from the Russian-Tatar (Azerbaijani) school. He worked in the Court of Appeal of the city of Elisavetpol (now Ganja). From there he was transferred to the position of clerk in the office of the military governor of

Kars Kars ( or ; ; ) is a city in northeast Turkey. It is the seat of Kars Province and Kars District.� ...

. After serving in Kars, Zeynal bey returned to Elisavetpol, where he worked as a translator. After working there for some time, he returned to the city of Shusha. After the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, he became a member of parliament from the

Ittihad The Ittihad Party () was an Islamist party in the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic that existed from 1917 to 1920. It was formed after the groups Ganja Ittihad-i Islam and Rusyada Muslumanliq merged in September 1917 in opposition to the secular ...

faction. His wife Durnis Khanum Vazirov was the daughter of Hashim Bek Vezirov. He and his wife were from the Vazirov family. They had 5 children: Allahyar bey, Aslan bey, Hamid bey, Rena Khanym and Leyla Khanym. He died in the city of Baku in 1933.

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* * {{cite book , ref={{harvid, Азербайджанская Демократическая Республика (1918―1920), 1998 , last= , title= Азербайджанская Демократическая Республика (1918―1920). Законодательные акты. (Сборник документов) , year= 1998 , location= Baku , publisher= , isbn= 1854 births 1933 deaths Azerbaijani nobility Azerbaijani-language poets Members of the National Assembly of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Vazirovs People from Shusha Poets from the Russian Empire