[2] Omar Faig Nemanzadeh was a Turkish Meskhetian and was born in 1872, in the village of Azğur (Atsquri in Georgian), in the Akhaltsikhe uezd of the Tiflis Governorate.

[3] When he was 10, his family decided to send him to the Transcaucasian Teachers Seminary in Gori where prominent people of the Caucasus such as Nariman Narimanov, Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, Uzeyir Hajibeyov and others studied.

[4] Omar Faig treated religious education skeptically and after two years, he transferred to secular Dar ush-Shafak seminary, where sciences and languages were taught and which had a reputation as breeder of liberal ideas in Turkey.

In the last year of education at this school, Omar Faig began to work at a post office in Galata, and all magazines and newspapers published in Europe passed through his hands.

“We consider the opening of schools in native language the most important task of today”, - he wrote in one of the declarations of his comrades – Azerbaijani democrats, whom he joined in 1892.

Being always on move throughout the Caucasus and finally settling in Baku, Omar Faig became an outstanding person in socio-political life also due to his publications – particularly, in the only Turkish-language newspaper in Russia Terjuman (Translator).

His article, dedicated to the first Muslim female school in Baku – he called it “an incomprehensible miracle” – was saved in archives of Servet-i Fünun magazine of Istanbul.

He devised an appropriate name for it – Molla Nasraddin, in honor of a famous and favourite thinker and scoffer of the Turkic world, who chaffed greed people and supported the poor and honest.

In 1920, when the republic in Baku collapsed and the Soviet regime was established there, the authorities gave an initiative: to continue publishing of popular Molla Nasraddin magazine by every possible means.