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Azerbaijani politician| Yevda Abramov | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Azerbaijan Parliament for Quba Rayon | |
| In office 6 November 2005 – 6 December 2019 | |
| Preceded by | new constituency |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1948-06-12)12 June 1948 Gyrmyzy Gasaba, Quba District, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR |
| Died | 6 December 2019(2019-12-06) (aged 71) Baku, Azerbaijan |
| Nationality | Azerbaijani Jews |
| Political party | New Azerbaijan Party |
| Alma mater | Azerbaijan State Pedagogical Institute |
| Occupation | Teacher |
| Committees | Standing Commission of the Milli Mejlis (Parliament) on Human Rights; Azerbaijan-Israel working group on interparliamentary relations; Azerbaijan-Argentine, Azerbaijan-Cuba , and Azerbaijan-Russia working groups on interparliamentary relations |
Yevda Sasunovich Abramov (Template:Lang-az; 12 June 1948 – 6 December 2019) was an Azerbaijani politician. He served as a Member of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan from 2005 until his death in 2019. and Deputy chairman of Azerbaijani National Assembly's Committee on Human Rights.
Abramov was a Mountain Jew, representing part of the Azerbaijani Jewish community.
Life
Yevda Abramov was born in the village of Krasnaya Sloboda of Quba Rayon on June 12, 1948. He came from the Cohen family, originally hailing from Iran. His father was a former leader and spiritual guide of the Jewish community of Azerbaijan. His family's known 750-year-old history traces back to Shemakha, about 250 km north-west of Baku. In 1902, when an earthquake struck the town, many surviving Jews left for Quba. His father left to fight in World War II against Nazi Germany.
Yevda Abramov graduated from the History faculty of Azerbaijan State Pedagogical Institute. He spoke Azeri, Turkish, Russian, and Persian fluently.
From 1971, he was a teacher and the deputy director at a secondary school in Quba region, and from 1987, he was the chairman of the Executive Committee and secondary school teacher in Krasnaya Sloboda, a Jewish town in Quba Rayon.
In 2000 he was elected the chairman of municipality in Krasnaya Sloboda. From 1986 until 1999 he was in regional politics before he joined the ruling authoritarian New Azerbaijan Party.
On November 6, 2005 he was elected as Member of Parliament from the Quba-Qusar constituency No. 53. In parliament, he served as deputy chair of the Standing Commission of the so-called Milli Mejlis on Human Rights as well as the head of the Azerbaijan-Israel Working Group on Interparliamentary Relations and the Azerbaijan-Argentina, Azerbaijan-Cuba and Azerbaijan-Russia Working Groups on Interparliamentary Relations.
Yevda Abramov was married, with four children. Three of his children live in Israel and one of his sons serves as an officer in the IDF.
Abramov died in Baku on 6 December 2019 at the age of 71.
References
- ^ (in English)Milli Mejlis of Azerbaijan Republic - Abramov Yevda Sasunovich
- 10 January 2008 Azeri Jews: Centuries of coexistence in Azerbaijan by Gabriel Lerner
- Jerusalem Post, republished Azerbaijan to open trade office in Israel Archived 2012-04-06 at the Wayback Machine by Hilary Leila Krieger
- ^ Spring 2007; Shalom Magazine - Yevda Abramov by Roland Syssman
External links
Categories:- 1948 births
- 2019 deaths
- Azerbaijani educators
- 20th-century Azerbaijani educators
- 21st-century Azerbaijani educators
- Azerbaijani Jews
- Azerbaijani people of Iranian-Jewish descent
- Jewish Azerbaijani politicians
- Jewish educators
- Members of the National Assembly (Azerbaijan)
- Mountain Jews
- New Azerbaijan Party politicians
- People from Quba