Samed Vurgun is a writer from Azerbaijan, twice awarded the Stalin Prize. Among the most significant of his creations are the poems "Lokbatan", "Twenty six", "Aygun", the plays "Vagif" and "Farhad and Shirin". Now the works of Vurgun are considered to be an example of the Azerbaijani literary language.
Childhood of the poet
Samed Vurgun (real name - Vekilov) was born on March 21, 1906 in a new style in the small village of Yukhary Salakhly. When the boy was six years old, his mother passed away. Since 1912, he was raised by his grandmother Aisha and his father.
In 1918, he graduated from the zemstvo school and moved with his whole family to Gazakh (this is a city in the south-west of Azerbaijan). Then Samed, like his older brother Mehtikhan, entered the Gazakh Teachers' Seminary.
In 1922, the poet's father died, and a year later, and his grandmother. After that, Samed was taken under the care of his cousin Khangyzy.
Creativity and life of Samed Vurgun from 1925 to 1945
He began publishing with his works in 1925. It was then that the Tifliss edition of "Yeni Fikir" published his poem, which was called "Appeal to the youth."
It is known that in the twenties, Samed was a teacher of literature in Gazakh, Guba and Ganja. In 1929, he became a student at the Second Moscow State University and studied there until 1930, after which he decided to continue his education at the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute.
Samad Vurgun's debut book was published in 1930 - it was called "The Poet's Oath".
Four years later, in 1934, Samed married Khaver khanum Mirzabekova. In fact, Haver became the main love in the life of a writer, they lived together until his death. In this marriage, three children were born - two sons (Yusif and Vagif) and a daughter (her name is Aybyaniz). When the sons grew up, they connected their lives with creativity: V.
Since the mid-thirties, Samad Vurgun began to engage in translation activities. For example, he translated Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin" and (partially) the famous Georgian epic poem of the twelfth century - "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" into his native Azerbaijani.
In 1937, Samed Vurgun finished work on the tragedy in three acts "Vagif". It tells about the life of the Azerbaijani poet and vizier Molla Panakh Vagif, who lived in the eighteenth century. In the early forties, Vurgun was given the Stalin Prize for this tragedy. Later, he received this prestigious award and for the second time - for the rhymed play "Farhad and Shirin".
The writer was also engaged in creative work during the Great Patriotic War. From 1941 to 1945 he wrote more than sixty poems and a number of poems (in particular, the poem "Dastan in Baku").
In 1943 in the United States at a poetry competition on a military theme, Vurgun presented his poem "Mother's Advice". It was highly appreciated by the organizers of the competition and entered the top twenty. It was published in the New York collection, which was distributed among the American soldiers.
In the same 1943, at the suggestion of Vurgun, the House of the Intelligentsia named after Fizuli opened its doors for meetings with fighters who fought at the front and for other events in Baku.
Recent years and memory
In 1945, Samed became an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR. In addition, from 1946 to 1956, he served as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet (Supreme Soviet) of the USSR.
The remarkable poet passed away at the end of May 1956. His grave is in Baku.
At the present time, a library in one of the districts of Kiev (Ukraine), an educational institution in Dushanbe (Tajikistan), a street in the Northern Administrative District of Moscow (Russia) bears the name of Samed Vurgun. And in Azerbaijan itself there is a whole village, renamed in honor of the talented poet. Moreover, in such Azerbaijani cities as Agjabedi and Baku, there are also streets of Samed Vurgun. And in the sixties, a beautiful monument to the writer was erected in the Azerbaijani capital. Its creator was the monumentalist Fuad Abdrakhmanov.
