Boyukagha Mirsalaev was born in 1893 in the village of
Razgov,
Lenkoran uezd. He moved to
Baku in 1906 at the age of 13 and began his career in the oil fields as a child. In addition to being a laborer he did not lag behind in improving his knowledge and literacy. He graduated from a three-year school in the city of
Sabunchi. In 1918 he returned to his native village of Razgov and worked as the secretary of the village council of the Mistan rural society. After the establishment of the
Soviet Union Boyukagha completed a one-year training course for secretaries of committees for emergency situations in
Moscow. Thanks to excellent conversational skills and high literacy he was admitted to the party in 1922. In 1924–1925, Mirsalayev was elected a member of the Central Committee of Transcaucasia and the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Azerbaijan, and in 1927 he was elected to the XV Congress of the Central Committee. In 1930, Mirsalaev was sent to the
Lankaran region as the first secretary. In the summer of 1930, the "
Vostokkino" expedition made surveys in the Talysh region. The result was a short ethnographic film-essay "Talyshes", which shows footage of the speech of the chairman of the Lankaran Executive Committee Boukagha Mirsalaev. In 1931–1933, Mirsalaev worked in the
Transcaucasian Village Committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was the head of the department. Mirsalaev also contributed to the construction of schools in the Lankaran district, raising the level of education, attracting young people to the field of literature and art and developing the
Talysh language. During the first interrogation on December 15, 1937, investigator Meshcharkov asked various questions to Mirsalaev, but Mirsalaev denied all charges. It can be seen from the materials of the investigation that investigator Meshcharkov detained more than 32 people together with Mirsalaev. These people were threatened and forced to give false evidence. Meanwhile, Mirsalaev being the secretary of the
Lankaran district party committee really carried out preparatory work for the creation of the Talysh Autonomous Soviet Republic, which in essence would be the restoration of the
Mughan Soviet Republic. == Family ==