Teymur Elchin

Teymur Elchin (Teymur Aliyev) was born in Shusha. In 1931, his family moved to Baku.

He studied at the Philology Faculty of Azerbaijan State University (1941-1948).

Literary worker in the editorial office of the "Young Worker" newspaper (1941), freelance correspondent in the editorial office of socio-political programs at the Azerbaijan Radio Committee (1941-1942), announcer, editor, editor-in-chief (1942-1943), cadet, junior commander, regimental Komsomol organizer on the Transcaucasian front during World War II, attendee of training and retraining courses for the political staff of the Transcaucasian front (1943-1945), secretary of the Komsomol committee of the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute (1945-1946), first secretary of the Baku city committee of the Azerbaijan Young Communist League (1946-1948), deputy head of the propaganda and agitation department of the Central Committee of the Azerbaijan Young Communist League (1948-1949), secretary of the Baku committee of the Azerbaijan Young Communist League (1949–1950), head of the political and social literature department of Azernashr (1950-1952), He served as Deputy Chairman of the Radio Information Committee under the Council of Ministers of Azerbaijan (1952-1953), Head of the Publishing Group of the Council of Ministers of Azerbaijan, Head of the Secretariat (1953-1955), Deputy Head of the Science and Culture Department, Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan (1955-1957), Chairman of the Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Azerbaijan (1956-1964), Head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan (1964-1975), Deputy Minister of Culture of Azerbaijan (1976-1988), Head of the General Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan (1988-1990). He began his literary activity at an early age. His first published work was the poem "Azerbaijan" (1938), published in the "Poems Collection" of the Baku Central Pioneer House. His articles published in periodicals were signed by Teymur Alizade. Songs were composed to his poems. The verse play "Snow Girl" was staged at the Young Spectators Theater (1983). His works have been published in the languages ​​of foreign nations. He also paid special attention to literary translation.

Poet, publicist, translator, public figure, laureate of the State Prize (1991) Teymur Elchin died in 1992.