Məsudı Dovran (Məmmədov)

Masud Aliaga ogly Mamedov, known as Masudi Dovran, was born on July 27, 1937 in the village of Shahagach, Astara region. In 1962–1967, he graduated from the Faculty of Russian Language and Literature of the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical Institute of Languages, and worked as a researcher in the Department of Iranian and Caucasian Languages ​​at the Institute of Linguistics named after I. Nasimi. He defended his thesis on the Khalaj language and in 1973 received the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences.

In 1992, he was invited to the International Kazakh-Turkish University “Turkestan” in the Chimkent region of Kazakhstan. When Lenkoran State University was created in 1994, he was appointed there; worked first as dean, then as vice-rector for scientific work. Professor of the Department of Linguistics. In 1994 he defended his doctoral dissertation “Linguistic analysis of geographical names of the Talysh zone of Azerbaijan”, Doctor of Philology. Professor Masud Mamedov is the author of more than 300 scientific articles, five monographs and six poetry books. His collection of poems «Az tolışim» was published (Lankaran, 2004).

Biographical information follows the 2021 edition.