Mammad Alakbarov
Mammad Hamid oghlu Alakbarov (, 1899 — February 7, 1959) was an Azerbaijani-Soviet statesman and pedagogue, the first Minister of Culture of Azerbaijan (1953–1955), Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan SSR (1952–1953), Minister of Education of the Azerbaijan SSR (1947–1952). Biography Mammad Alakbarov was born in 1899 in Lankaran. After the death of his father Mashadi Hamid in 1909, he lived under the care of his relatives, studied at the "Behjat" Russian-Tatar (Azerbaijani) school in Lankaran, but was unable to complete his education. Until 1920, he worked in his cousin's fish farm. After the establishment of the Soviet government in Azerbaijan, he was sent to the 1st grade school in Astrakhan-Bazar as a teacher after completing a teacher training course. In 1921, he started working at school No. 5 in Lankaran. Mammad Alakbarov studied at the Pedagogical Institute in Baku in 1923–1926, and as a specialist with higher education he taught in Balaxanı, Bashkechid region of Borchaly Uyezd. He worked as the head of the Public Education Department of Guba district. In 1928, Mammad Alakbarov worked in the Office of the People's Commissariat of Education of the Azerbaijan SSR, and worked as Methodist, responsible executive, deputy