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Samed VurgunAzerbaijani Soviet poet, playwright and public figure.
Date of Birth: 21.03.1906
Country:  Azerbaijan |
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Biography of Samed Vurgun
Samed Vurgun was an Azerbaijani Soviet poet, playwright, and public figure. He was a laureate of several prestigious Soviet awards. Vurgun was born in the village of Yukhary Salahli in the present-day Kazakh district of the Azerbaijan Republic. At the age of six, Vurgun lost his mother and was raised by his father and grandmother. In 1918, his family moved to Kazakh, where Vurgun and his older brother Mehtikhan enrolled in the local teacher's seminary. Four years later, Vurgun lost his father, and a year after that, his grandmother Aishi-Khanum passed away. Their cousin Hangiza Vekilova took care of Vurgun and his older brother. In 1925, Vurgun published his first poem, "Address to the Youth," in the Tiflis newspaper "Novaya Mysl" ("Yeni Fikir"). Although he couldn't make a living from poetry immediately, Vurgun taught literature in local rural schools for a while.
Education and Literary Career
Later, Vurgun continued his education, spending two years at Moscow University before transferring to the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute. Throughout his studies, Vurgun continued to write poetry. In 1930, his first collection of works, "The Poet's Oath," was published.
Recognition and World War II
In 1943, Vurgun was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR, and two years later, he was elected to the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences. One of the main themes of Vurgun's work became the Great Patriotic War, during which he wrote over 60 poems and several successful poems. Vurgun's popularity grew, and as part of a propaganda campaign, leaflets containing his poem "To the Partisans of Ukraine" were dropped from airplanes over local forests to boost the morale of the partisans.
Awards and Legacy
Vurgun was twice awarded the Stalin Prize of the second degree in 1941 and 1942, and he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1940. In 1943, his poem "A Mother's Farewell" received highly favorable reviews at an anti-war literature contest in the United States. The poem made it into the top twenty best works of the competition and was included in a collection distributed among servicemen.
In the same year, Vurgun initiated the creation of the Fizuli House of Intellectuals in Baku. This house aimed to organize military events such as meetings with fellow soldiers and gatherings with front-line soldiers. Samed Vurgun passed away in 1956.
