Zolfaghar Ahmadzadeh (, ; June 14, 1898, Pensar - June 9, 1942, Mariinsk) was a Talysh poet, public and political figure, publicist, translator, leader of the Talysh national and cultural revival in the 1930s.
Life
Zolfaghar Ahmedzadeh was born in 1898 in the village of Pensar (now in the Astara region of Azerbaijan) into a poor peasant Talysh family. Parents were engaged in serf agriculture, had a small rice () plantation, and were serfs (raiyats) of the famous Mir Akhmed Khan Talyshinsky. In his autograph, Ahmedzadeh tells the case that the guards of Mir Ahmad Khan Talyshinsky beat his old man's father to unconsciousness, because he could not give the khan a bakhra in time. Parents died before World War I. At the age of 9, on the initiative of his father, he was hired by a village teacher, where he studied for 2 years and learned to read, write and speak Persian. In 1913-1914 he graduated from a village school (mektab) in the Persian language in his native village of Pensar, learned to speak and write in Persian, and began to study the Arabic language. In 1916-1917 he graduated from a 2-grade rural school also in the village of Pensar. Having a colossal desire to study, I went to Lankaran and entered the 1st group of the school there. When I moved to the 2nd group, my father died and he left his studies and started farming. Worked in this way for 2 years in agriculture. At the age of 12, the ability to draw and poetry was manifested. Seeing such an ability, a friend of his father, a resident of the city of Lankaran, citizen Abulfas Hasanov, persuaded him to leave agriculture and go into trade. He took him as a companion and gave him money. With this money, Ahmedzadeh began trading and continued this business for 1 year, but being young and inexperienced, and besides not having an absolute desire to trade, he not only did not earn, but even spent the available funds. At the same time, there was one teacher in the village, Russian by origin, Ahmedzadeh entered him and studied Russian for 4 months.