Ismayil Daghistanli

Ismayil Daghistanli studied at Baku State University. Employment is recorded with Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts. Distinctions recorded are Stalin Prize, 2nd degree, Order of Lenin, People's Artist of the USSR and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

• Name — Ismayil Daghistanli • Native Name — İsmayıl Dağıstanlı • Birth Name — Ismayil Yusif oghlu Hajiyev • Born — 6 January 1907 • Birthplace — Zərnə, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire (present-day Azerbaijan) • Died — 1 April 1980 • Place of death — Baku, Azerbaijan, Soviet Union • Resting Place — Alley of Honor • Education — Baku State University • Occupation — Actor, pedagogue • Awards — * Illustration — People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR • Illustration — Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR • Illustration — State Prize of the Azerbaijan SSR

Ismayil Daghistanli was born on 6 January 1907 in Zərnə village of Qakh District into an Rutul family. He began his stage career in 1925 in the drama society under the Nukha Central Workers 'and Peasants' Club. He studied at Baku Theater College from 1926 to 1930. From 1927, he also performed on the stage of the Drama Theater as a practitioner actor. From 1930 he worked intermittently at Azerbaijan National Drama Theatre, in 1936–1937 at Yerevan Drama Theater, and was a director and actor of the Azerbaijani theater he organized in Derbent in 1932–1933. Since 1938, he had created a series of classic characters on the stage of Azerbaijan National Drama Theatre. He became famous on the Azerbaijani stage as the first performer of the roles of V. I. Lenin. In the last years of his life, he worked as the head of the department at Azerbaijan Institute of Arts. He had published several books about actors and theater. Ismayil Hajiyev died on 1 April 1980 in Baku.