Yevda Abramov

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Yevda Abramov
Member of the
Quba Rayon
In office
6 November 2005 – 6 December 2019
Preceded bynew constituency
Personal details
Born(1948-06-12)12 June 1948
USSR
Died6 December 2019(2019-12-06) (aged 71)
Baku, Azerbaijan
NationalityMountain Jew
Political partyNew Azerbaijan Party
Alma materAzerbaijan State Pedagogical Institute
OccupationTeacher
CommitteesStanding Commission of the Milli Mejlis (Parliament) on Human Rights; Azerbaijan-Israel working group on interparliamentary relations; Azerbaijan-Argentine, Azerbaijan-Cuba, and Azerbaijan-Russia working groups on interparliamentary relations

Yevda Sasunovich Abramov (

National Assembly of Azerbaijan from 2005 until his death in 2019.[1]
and Deputy chairman of Azerbaijani National Assembly's Committee on Human Rights.

Abramov was a

Azerbaijani Jewish community.[2][3]

Life

Yevda Abramov was born in the village of

Quba Rayon on June 12, 1948. He came from the Cohen family, originally hailing from Iran. His father was a former leader and spiritual guide of the Jewish community of Azerbaijan. His family's known 750-year-old history traces back to Shemakha, about 250 km north-west of Baku. In 1902, when an earthquake struck the town, many surviving Jews left for Quba. His father left to fight in World War II against Nazi Germany.[4]

Yevda Abramov graduated from the History faculty of Azerbaijan State Pedagogical Institute. He spoke Azeri, Turkish, Russian, and Persian fluently.

From 1971, he was a teacher and the deputy director at a secondary school in Quba region, and from 1987, he was the chairman of the Executive Committee[dubious – discuss] and secondary school teacher in Krasnaya Sloboda, a Jewish town in Quba Rayon.

In 2000 he was elected the chairman of municipality in Krasnaya Sloboda.[1] From 1986 until 1999 he was in regional politics before he joined the ruling authoritarian New Azerbaijan Party.[4]

On November 6, 2005 he was elected as Member of Parliament from the Quba-Qusar constituency No. 53. In parliament, he served as deputy chair of the Standing Commission of the so-called Milli Mejlis on Human Rights as well as the head of the Azerbaijan-Israel Working Group on Interparliamentary Relations and the Azerbaijan-Argentina, Azerbaijan-Cuba and Azerbaijan-Russia Working Groups on Interparliamentary Relations.[1]

Yevda Abramov was married, with four children.[1] Three of his children live in Israel and one of his sons serves as an officer in the IDF.[4]

Abramov died in Baku on 6 December 2019 at the age of 71.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b c d (in English)Milli Mejlis of Azerbaijan Republic - Abramov Yevda Sasunovich
  2. ^ 10 January 2008 Azeri Jews: Centuries of coexistence in Azerbaijan by Gabriel Lerner
  3. ^ Jerusalem Post, republished Azerbaijan to open trade office in Israel Archived 2012-04-06 at the Wayback Machine by Hilary Leila Krieger
  4. ^ a b c Spring 2007; Shalom Magazine - Yevda Abramov by Roland Syssman

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