Hajimammad Gafgazli

Hajimammad Gafgazli (Hajimammad Guliyev) was born in Lankaran. In 1902, he moved to Baku with his family.

He studied at the 7th Russian-Muslim school in Mollahana, and at the Baku Theater School (1926).

At the age of 14, he began working as a copywriter at the Orujov brothers' printing house. In 1920, he created the first worker-peasant club in Mashtaga and organized a drama club under the club. Here, he acted as a director, staging the works of Azerbaijani playwrights. Abbas Mirza Sharifzade invited him to the National Drama Theater. From then on, he worked in this theater until the end of his life. His first role in the theater was in the play "Uchurum" (Huseyn Javid). In the 1930s, he contributed to the development of the Tashkent Theater. Uzbeks began to call Hajimammad "Caucasian" because he came from the Caucasus.

He was featured in the film "Tehran-43" (1980, directors Alexander Alov, Vladimir Naumov / Russia, France, Switzerland) by foreign filmmakers. 

Honored artist (1943) Hajimammad Gafgazli died in 1982.