[1] Abdul Vahab Rahim oglu Salamzadeh was born on 16 February 1916, in the city of Shamakhi in Azerbaijan, which was then part of the Russian Empire.

Throughout his life, he travelled around the regions of Azerbaijan, got acquainted with the condition of historical monuments, took part in their sizing and restoration sketches.

[2] In 1982, a mausoleum based on a project of Salamzadeh and Elbrus Kanukov was erected over the grave of the prominent Azerbaijani poet Molla Panah Vagif in Shusha.

[3] Salamzadeh was also a lecturer at the Azerbaijan State University; he supervised graduate students at the Institute of Architecture and Art, and was a member of the Board and the Presidium of the Union of Architects of the Azerbaijani SSR.

His most fundamental work is considered History of Architecture of Azerbaijan, co-authored with Mikayil Huseynov and Leonid Bretanitsky, published in Russian.