Our today's hero is Samed Vurgun. His biography will be discussed in detail below. We are talking about the Azerbaijani Soviet poet, playwright and public figure. He was the first to receive the title of People’s in his republic. He is also an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR. He became the laureate of two Stalin Prizes of the second degree. Consisted in the CPSU (b).
Biography
The Soviet poet Samed Vurgun was born in 1906 in the Kazakh district, the village of Yukhara Salahli. When our hero was 6 years old, his mother died. The boy remained in the care of Aisha Khanum's grandmother and father. After the future poet graduated from the Zemstvo school in 1918, the family moved to Kazakh. There, our hero, together with Mehtikhan Vekilov, the elder brother, entered the Kazakh teacher's seminary. After some time, father leaves life. It happened in 1922. A year later, my grandmother died. Thus, the care of our hero, as well as his brother, passed to Khangyza Vekilova, their cousin.
The poet’s first poem, “Appeal to Youth,” was published in the Tiflis newspaper under the title Yeni Fikir in 1925. Our hero was a teacher of literature in one of the rural schools of Kazakh. For two years, he studied at Moscow University. It was in the period from 1929 to 1930. After that, our hero continued his studies and became a student at the Pedagogical Institute. Then he visited a similar university in Azerbaijan. In 1945 he was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR. He became a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from the second to the fourth convocation. The poet passed away in 1956, May 27. Our hero is buried in Baku.
Creation
Samed Vurgun noted that his main creative task he considers the disclosure of poetry surrounding reality. The first publication of our hero appeared in 1925 on the pages of the newspaper "New Thought". A poem entitled “Appeal to Youth” was written in connection with the end of the seminary. The first book of our hero was published in 1930. It was called "The Oath of the Poet."
The Great Patriotic War played a special role in the work of this author. During this period, the poet created more than sixty poems, as well as several poems, among them the work “Baku Dastan”. During this period, the glory of our hero as a poet is growing. The leaflets on which the piece “The Partisans of Ukraine” was written were dropped from the plane into local forests to support the detachments. In 1943, in America, in the framework of the competition for the best anti-war poem, the poet's work entitled “Mother’s Parting words” was highly appreciated. This work among the twenty best in world poetry was published in New York, and then distributed among the military. Soon, on the initiative of our hero, the Fizuli Intellectuals House was created in Baku. It held military events and meetings with front-line soldiers.
Poems
The poet Samed Vurgun in 1928 began work on his first work in this genre. It was called "Komsomol Poem." In 1932, the work "Event" was released. In 1933, the poems Muradkhan, Khumar, Lokbatan, and Rural Morning appeared. In 1934, the work “Bench of Death” was published. In 1935, the poems “Bitter Memories”, “Twenty Six,” “The Gallows,” “The Lost Love” were published. In 1936, our hero wrote the work "Riot." In 1937, “The Word about the Collective Farm Girl Basti” was published. The poem “Baku Dastan” was published in 1944.
Plays
Samed Vurgun in 1937 published the work "Vagif". It reproduces the tragic fate of the Mall of Panah Vagif. In 1939, the play “Khanlar” appeared. It is dedicated to the life of a revolutionary named Khanlar Safaraliev. In 1941, the work “Farhad and Shirin” was published - a poetic drama based on the poems of Nizami. In 1945, the work "Man."
Translations
In 1936, Samed Vurgun translated the novel “Eugene Onegin” by A. S. Pushkin into the Azerbaijani language. For this work he was awarded a medal. It was handed over by the Pushkin Committee. In 1936, he translated part of the poem “The Knight in the Tiger Skin” by Shota Rustaveli. For this work, the poet received a Certificate of Merit of the Georgian SSR. In 1939, his translation of the poem “Leili and Majnun” by Nizami Ganjavi was published. Also, our hero adapted some of the works of Maxim Gorky. He translated a number of works by Dzhambul, Ilya Chavchavadze and Taras Shevchenko.
Family and Heritage
Samed Vurgun was married to Haver Khanum Mirzabekova. He has three children. The first son's name is Yusif Samedoglu. He became a national writer of Azerbaijan. The second son is Vagif Samedoglu. He became a national poet of Azerbaijan. The daughter of our hero is Aybyaniz Vekilova. She is a distinguished cultural worker.
In 1961, a monument to the poet was erected in Baku. The sculptor was Fuad Abdurakhmanov. In 1975, the Samad Vurgun House Museum was opened in Baku. It became the first memorial to be dedicated to an individual. In the house there were meetings of famous cultural figures of that period. In 1976, Rauf Hajiyev - the composer - created a cantata dedicated to our hero. In 1976, a postage stamp of the USSR was prepared in honor of him . In 2006, the centenary of the poet was celebrated. A special postage stamp of Azerbaijan was issued for this event.
A library in the city of Kiev, the Azerbaijan State Russian Drama Theater, a technical school in Bulgaria, a school in Dushanbe N257, streets in Baku, Agjabadi and Moscow, a village in Azerbaijan are named after our hero. In 1943, Samed Vurgun was awarded the title of National poet of the Azerbaijan SSR. In 1943 he became an Honored Artist. For the play entitled "Vagif" received the Stalin Prize of the second degree. He was awarded a similar prize for his work Farhad and Shirin. Now you know who Samed Vurgun is. Photos of the poet are attached to this material.