Museyib Shahbazov was born in 1898 in
Petrovsk-Port,
Dagestan Oblast. After receiving his primary education at a village school, he went to
Astrakhan with his father, and after a while, he continued his education at a realny school in
Derbent. M. Shahbazov had been interested in public life since school age, joined artistic association and read banned books. Gradually, he began to study
Marxist literature, attending workers' meetings and rallies. The first periods of his revolutionary activity took place in
Dagestan. He was then persecuted by the government and went to Astrakhan. Arriving in Astrakhan in early April 1918, Museyib Shahbazov made contacts with the Muslim branch of the
RC(b)P provincial committee headed by
Nariman Narimanov and joined the Bolsheviks party. Museyib Shahbazov was sent to study in
Moscow under the auspices of the RC(b)P provincial committee. After graduating from the Moscow Red Professorial Institute of Literature, he was mobilized to work in the political department of the XIII Army. M. Shahbazov came to
Soviet Azerbaijan in 1921; he first worked in the Emergency Commission fighting the counter-revolution, then headed the Ganja Uyezd Executive Committee, and worked as the Deputy People's Commissar for Justice of the Azerbaijan SSR. From 1923 he worked as the head of the
propaganda department of the Central Committee of the
AC(b)P, and the secretary of the Ganja Uyezd Committee of the AC(b)P. Museyib Shahbazov was elected rector to the
Azerbaijan State University on 22 June 1929. He worked in this position until the beginning of August of the same year. He was the editor of the "Yeni yol" newspaper and at his initiative, the first "Muallime komek" magazine was published in Azerbaijan in 1934. In 1935–1937 Museyib Shahbazov was the Commissar of People's Education of the
Azerbaijan SSR. He was the author of articles on the importance of switching to the
Latin alphabet. M. Shahbazov was elected a member of the Central Committee of the AC(b)P, the Central Executive Committee of the Azerbaijan SSR and the Central Executive Committee of the
TSFSR, a member of the Transcaucasian Trade Union Council and the Central Committee of the Trade Union of Educators, he was a representative of the 14th Congress of the
AUC(b)P, and on 27 January 1936 he was awarded the
Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Shahbazov was married to Lyubov Martinovna, had two daughters named Svetlana and Leyla. Leyla Shahbazova was an Honored Lawyer of the Azerbaijan SSR. Museyib Shahbazov was arrested in September 1937 in the name of "People's Enemy" and was executed in 1938. He was posthumously acquitted on 3 September 1955. == References ==