Sara Ashurbeyli

Sara Ashurbeyli was born in Baku.

She studied at the Saint Jeanne d'Arc French College in Istanbul (1925), the Faculty of Oriental Studies of Azerbaijan State University (1930), the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​of the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical Institute (1941), and the Azerbaijan Art School (1941).

She worked as a senior lecturer at Azerbaijan State University and as a dean at the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical Institute. She gave lectures on the history of Azerbaijan, Western and Eastern cultures in higher schools. In addition to being an expert in the history of the peoples of the Near and Middle East, she was also an artist and musician. She used these knowledge and skills to survive during the years of severe persecution. She worked as an artist and decorator at the Drama Theater and a teacher at school. At the invitation of her teacher Uzeyir Hajibeyov, she taught foreign languages ​​at the Conservatory for 15 years and made a living by selling her own paintings. Her work "Goygol" is kept in one of the museums in Mexico. She worked as the head of the Department of Medieval History at the Azerbaijan History Museum, a senior researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, a scientific secretary, a senior researcher and a leading researcher at the Institute of History. From 1993 until the end of her life, she was a leading researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of ANAS. She is the author of the books “Essays on the History of Baku”, “Economic and Cultural Relations of Azerbaijan and India in the Middle Ages” and “History of the State of the Shirvanshahs”.

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences (1966), Azerbaijan State Prize (1986), laureate of the “Shohrat” Order, Honored Scientist (1982) Sara Ashurbeyli died in 2001.