The Azerbaijani diaspora in Moscow has bid farewell to the talented journalist, excellent writer and famous author Farhad Agamaliev, who died abruptly and unexpectedly of a heart attack.
Farhad Mutalibovich Agamaliev was born in Baku in 1946. He began writing early in a variety of Azeri and Soviet publications, in which his literary and journalistic materials were published.
He graduated from the Faculty of Scenarists at the State Institute of Cinematography. His literary scenarios were the basis of the films "Old Wharf", "Seventeen Boyish Years", "The One Who Did Not Ask," "Defeat after Victory" and a series of documentaries in the Baku, Moscow, Sverdlovsk and Minsk film studios. His play "Arrow and Target" was the basis of the production of the same name in Baku.
Farhad Agamaliev was film critic of the newspaper "Soviet Culture", and was editor of the Moscow newspaper "Panorama of Azerbaijan" and the magazine "Orient Express." From 1993 to 2004 he served in the diplomatic corps, led the press service of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Russia, and from 2005 he worked as the head of department for the diaspora at the newspaper "Azerbaijan Congress" and collaborated with "Baku" magazine.
