People from Azerbaijan

5 people remembered here.

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  Alexander Sharovsky

  1948 – 2026 · Actor and theatre director

  Baku actor and director who led the Russian Drama Theatre for three decades.

  48 candles · 5 tributes
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  Alla Akhundova

  1939 – 2026 · Poet

  She taught wartime Baku children to share bread and Soviet readers to keep reading.

  36 candles · 5 tributes
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  Avaz Zeynalli

  1970 – 2026 · Investigative journalist

  Azerbaijani investigative journalist who paid for exposing corruption with years in prison.

  7 candles · 1 tributes
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  Tofig Bakikhanov

  1930 – 2026 · Azerbaijani composer

  A composer who carried mugham into the symphony and taught Baku's musicians for half a century.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Teymur Yahyayev

  1955 – 2026 · Journalist and official

  Journalist who twice led his native Masally District in Azerbaijan's first years of independence.

  4 candles · 1 tributes