Kazim Ziya

Kazim Ziya (Kazim Kazimzadeh) was born in the village of Yukhari Aylis, Ordubad.

From a young age, he mastered Arabic and Persian, and later Russian and French. In 1911, he moved to Baku with his uncle Huseyn's family. In 1912, he entered the "Ittihad" Iranian gymnasium. A year later, he created a literary circle at the school. In 1914, theater devotees led by Huseyn Arablinski staged the tragedy "Unfortunate Young Man" (Abdurrahim bey Hagverdiyev) for the benefit of students at the "Ittihad" school. Since then, he has performed in various theater groups. Although he actively participated in the performances of the National Drama Theater, he was taken to the staff of the troupe in 1922. He participated in the formation of the state theater in Nakhchivan. In 1925, he returned to Baku and joined the troupe of the Baku Turkish Workers' and Peasants' Theater. When the Baku Turkish Workers' Theater moved to Ganja in 1933, he did not leave his native collective. From 1936 to 1938, he acted in state theaters in Tbilisi and Irevan. In 1938, he came to Baku and joined the troupe of the National Drama Theater. Together with the creative team of the play "Morning of the East" (Enver Mammadkhanli), he was awarded the Stalin Prize for the role of Thomson (1948).

He was also known as a master of artistic recitation.

He was the first Azerbaijani theater figure to systematize the national stage language. He contributed to the development of artistic self-activity.

He taught at the Baku Theater Technical School since 1939.

He has a work called "Stage Language".

People's Artist (1943), laureate of the USSR State Prize (1948) Kazim Ziya died in 1956 and was buried in the Alley of Honor.