Samad Vurgun

Samad Vurgun
Vurgun in 1954
Born	Samad Yusif oghlu Vekilov (1906-03-21)March 21, 1906 Yukhary Salahly, Qazakh District, Azerbaijan
Died	May 27, 1956(1956-05-27) (aged 50) Baku, Azerbaijan
Occupation	Poet
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Samad Vurgun (Azerbaijani: Səməd Vurğun [sæˈmæd vuɾˈɣun]; born Samad Yusif oghlu Vekilov;^[a] March 21, 1906 – May 27, 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.^[1]

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”.

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