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Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli

Died in 1943

Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli, whose real name was Yusif Vazirov, was born on 12 September 1887 in Shusha. A law student at Saint Vladimir University in Kyiv from 1910, he completed his studies in Saratov in 1915. Representative of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan to Ukraine in 1918, he was entrusted the following year with opening its embassy in Constantinople. Exiled in France, where he worked in a factory in Clichy, he returned to Baku in 1926 and took part in the first Russian-Azerbaijani dictionary. Arrested in 1940, he died on 3 January 1943 in a camp near Gorky.

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