Jalil Baghdadbeyov

Jalil bey Amrah bey oghlu Baghdadbeyov (Azerbaijani: Cəlil bəy Əmrah bəy oğlu Bağdadbəyov; 1887 — April 21, 1951) was one of the first art critics and ethnographers of Azerbaijan, theater actor, director and organizer, translator, Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1943).

[2] In order to organize and develop theater art, he was sent to Central Asia from the second half of the 1920s to the mid-1930s by the decision of the Council of People's Commissars of Azerbaijan SSR.

[4] Jalil Baghdadbeyov was part of the Red Army in Iran together with cultural figures during the Great Patriotic War.

[1] In 1938–1948, he performed creative activities in the drama associations and state theaters of the cities of Shamakhi, Shusha, Salyan, Agdash, Zagatala, Garyagin, Aghdam, Shamkhor, Nakhchivan, Ordubad.

He is the author of the first written information about Haji Husu, Mashadi Isi, Deli Ismayil Bey, Mir Mohsun Navvab, Bagban Akbar, Majid Behbudov and others.