Mikayil Mushfig [SEP] place of death
Mikayil Mushfig
Mikayil Mushfig (, born Mikayil Ismayilzadeh) (5 June 1908, Baku – 6 January 1938, Baku) was an Azerbaijani poet of the 1930s.
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. In 1956, he was exonerated posthumously. Nikita
- In 1988, a new settlement – Mushfigabad named after M.Mushfig was established under the instruction of Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan.
- In 1988, “The place of Mikayil Mushfig” was establish at the house of Mushfig's father in Sayadlar village of Khizi raion by the initiative of Tofig Novruzov, Jabir Novruz, Aydın Zeynalov and Nabi Khazri.
- In 1988, a secondary school named after the poet was founded in Sumgayit and the bust of Mushfig was placed in front of the school building.
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