WRITER

Mikayil Mushfig

1908 - 1938

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Mikayil Mushfig (Azerbaijani: Mikayıl Müşfiq, born Mikayil Ismayilzade) (5 June 1908, Baku – 6 January 1938, Baku) was an Azerbaijani poet of the 1930s. Mikayil Mushfig is considered one of the founders of the new Azerbaijani poetic style. Most of his poetry is about romance, nature, feelings. Despite this, he soon became one of the slandered and criticized poets in the Union of Soviet Azerbaijani Writers, and soon afterwards, Mushfig was arrested and executed by Soviet authorities at the age of 30 during the Stalinist purges in the USSR. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikayil Mushfig has received more than 72,242 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mikayil Mushfig is the 3,825th most popular writer, the 86th most popular biography from Azerbaijan and the 20th most popular Azerbaijani Writer.

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  • 72k

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  • 50.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mikayil Mushfig ranks 3,825 out of 7,302. Before him are Blaga Dimitrova, Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, Faizi, Irmgard Keun, Amira Hass, and Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano. After him are Cui Hao, David Brin, Janet Frame, Johann Most, Vladimir Odoyevsky, and Srečko Kosovel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Mikayil Mushfig ranks 208. Before him are Paolo Monti, Lars-Erik Larsson, Kočo Racin, Arkhip Lyulka, Harald Reinl, and Karl Hein. After him are Joshua Logan, Renzo Rossellini, George Pal, Myrtle Bachelder, Marcel Langiller, and Ethel Merman. Among people deceased in 1938, Mikayil Mushfig ranks 142. Before him are Mirza Davud Huseynov, Władysław Grabski, Ernest William Brown, Gazanfar Musabekov, Georges Urbain, and Kaarlo Castrén. After him are Matvei Bronstein, Agvan Dorzhiev, Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquess of Alhucemas, Christian Rohlfs, Teodor Axentowicz, and Konstantin Kalinin.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Mikayil Mushfig ranks 86 out of 232. Before him are Artem Alikhanian (1908), Eduard Markarov (1942), Gazanfar Musabekov (1888), Abbasgulu Bakikhanov (1794), Surat Huseynov (1959), and Georges Candilis (1913). After him are Bella Davidovich (1928), Zakir Hasanov (1959), Aziza Mustafa Zadeh (1969), Akram Aylisli (1937), Ayna Sultanova (1895), and Rustam Ibragimbekov (1939).

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Among WRITERS In Azerbaijan

Among writers born in Azerbaijan, Mikayil Mushfig ranks 20. Before him are Mirza Alakbar Sabir (1862), Anar Rzayev (1938), Armen Ohanian (1887), Natallia Arsiennieva (1903), Molla Panah Vagif (1717), and Abbasgulu Bakikhanov (1794). After him are Akram Aylisli (1937), Mirza Khazar (1947), Jafar Jabbarly (1899), Sakina Akhundzadeh (1865), Molla Vali Vidadi (1709), and Abbas Sahhat (1874).

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