Nodar Shashigoghlu

Nodar Shashigoghlu was born in Batumi, Georgia. He is an Azerbaijani by nationality.

He studied at the Moscow Theater School (1950).

He worked at the Moscow Vakhtangov Theater, the Taganka Theater, the Leningrad Pushkin Drama Theater, the St. Petersburg Alexander Theater, Mosfilm, the Dovzhenko Film Studio, the Odessa Film Studio, and Azerbaijanfilm.

He has starred in films produced in various countries: in the film "The Great Warrior of Albania Skanderbeg" (1953, directed by Sergey Yutkevich / Albania, Russia) as Mehmet, the son of Murad II, in the film "Andries" (1954, directed by Yakov Bazelyan, Sergey Parajanov / Ukraine) as Voynovan, in the film "The Mexican" (1955, directed by Vladimir Kaplunovsky / Russia), in the film "The Scarf of Love" (1955, directed by Yevgeny Ivanov-Barkov / Ukraine) as Eldar Abukov, in the film "Avalanche in the Mountains" (1958, directed by Vasily Zhuravlyov / Russia), in the film-play "Little Tragedies: The Stone Guest" (1966, directed by Anton Dawson, Lyubov Fedotova / Russia) as Don Guan, in the film-play "Sons of the Fatherland" (1968, directed by Latif Fayziyev / Uzbekistan) as Iskander Salimov in the role of Khoja Abbas in the film “The Death of the Vizier-Mukhtar” (1969, directors: Roza Sirota, Vladimir Rechepter / Russia), in the role of Alexander Rakov in the film “The Angle of Fall” (1970, Director: Gennady Kazansky / Russia), in the role of Dolinsky in the series “Wrath” (1979, director: Sergey Yevlakhishvili / Russia), in the role of the representative of the Republic of the Pomegranate Islands in the film “Pomegranate Islands” (1981, director: Tamara Lisichian / Russia), in the role of Potemkin in the series “The Swearing Letter” (1983, directors: Amiran Darsavelidze, Giga Lordkipanidze / Georgia).

He was an actor of the Azerbaijan State Russian Drama Theater (2003-2013).

Honored Artist (1962), People's Artist (1982), laureate of the Order of "Glory" (2007) Nodar Shashigoghlu died in Baku in 2013 and was buried in the Second Alley of Honor.