Samad Vurgun (Azerbaijani: Səməd Vurğun, born Samad Vakilov, March 21, 1906, Yukhari Salahli – May 27, 1956, Baku) - 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 USSR State Prizes of second degree (1941, 1942), member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1940.
The Azerbaijan State Russian Dramatic Theatre and streets in Baku and Moscow, and formerly the city of Hovk in Armenia, are named after him.
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