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Samad Vurgun

1906 - 1956

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Samad Vurgun (Azerbaijani: Səməd Vurğun [sæˈmæd vuɾˈɣun]; born Samad Yusif oghlu Vekilov; 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.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”. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samad Vurgun has received more than 75,139 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Samad Vurgun is the 2,058th most popular writer (up from 2,212th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Azerbaijan (down from 36th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Azerbaijani Writer.

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  • 25

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  • 3.69

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Samad Vurgun ranks 2,058 out of 5,755Before him are William Moulton Marston, Pavel Kohout, Miguel Delibes, Erich Segal, Camilo Castelo Branco, and Frederick Marryat. After him are Frédéric Ozanam, Sigismund von Herberstein, Tadeusz Borowski, William of Moerbeke, Jacopone da Todi, and Marcellinus Comes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Samad Vurgun ranks 116Before him are Joan Hickson, Musa Cälil, Antal Doráti, Chester Carlson, Denis de Rougemont, and Hamazasp Babadzhanian. After him are Piero Taruffi, Philo Farnsworth, Jean Dieudonné, Mary Astor, Princess Anne of Orléans, and Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar. Among people deceased in 1956, Samad Vurgun ranks 70Before him are Ernst Robert Curtius, Erhard Raus, Nikolaj Velimirović, Mir Jafar Baghirov, Reşat Nuri Güntekin, and Clifford Brown. After him are Jimmie Angel, Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia, Alexander Gretchaninov, Harold Bride, Helmer Hanssen, and Ernest King.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Samad Vurgun ranks 40 out of 189Before him are Gara Garayev (1918), Vladimir Menshov (1939), Zeynab Khanlarova (1936), Mir Jafar Baghirov (1896), Vagit Alekperov (1950), and Hamazasp Babadzhanian (1906). After him are Hazi Aslanov (1910), Molla Panah Vagif (1717), Hovannes Adamian (1879), Mirza Shafi Vazeh (1794), Mahsati (1089), and Jalil Mammadguluzadeh (1869).

Among WRITERS In Azerbaijan

Among writers born in Azerbaijan, Samad Vurgun ranks 7Before him are Nizami Ganjavi (1141), Zecharia Sitchin (1920), Imadaddin Nasimi (1369), Mirza Fatali Akhundov (1812), Khaqani (1126), and Banine (1905). After him are Molla Panah Vagif (1717), Mirza Shafi Vazeh (1794), Mahsati (1089), Jalil Mammadguluzadeh (1869), Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh (1925), and Abbasgulu Bakikhanov (1794).