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Mahammad Biriya

Died in 1985

Mahammad Biriya, born Mahammad Baghirzadeh, was born in 1914 in Tabriz, the son of a carpenter, and grew up between Baku and Khorasan before returning to Iran in 1933. A journalist in Tabriz, in 1943 he chaired the Azerbaijan workers' union and edited several newspapers. Minister of Culture and Education of the National Government of Azerbaijan from December 1945, he had teaching carried out in Azerbaijani Turkish. Arrested in the Soviet Union in 1947, he spent twenty-two years in detention and exile, returned to Tabriz in 1980 and died there on 19 February 1985.

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