Muzəffər Nəsirli

Linguist, poet, folklorist, teacher and journalist Muzaffar Ibrahim oglu Nasirli was born in 1902 in the village of Shagolyakucha, Lankaran region. He was the chairman of the Society for the Study of the Talysh Region, created in 1920. Together with Shahub Mursalov, he wrote and compiled the books «Tolışə mahneoon», «Jimoni ro», «Tojə məktəb», «Əlifbo», «Tolışə zıvon» and others. In 1936, he was arrested as an “enemy of the people” and imprisoned in Bailov prison. He was sentenced to seven years in prison; after three years of treatment in the Tashkent city hospital, he was released due to lack of grounds for charges. After his release, he worked as a teacher in the village of Mashtaga in Absheron, then as a teacher in the villages of Badalan and Digo, Masalli region. He died in 1944 in Masalli.

Biographical information follows the 2021 edition.