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Yevda Abramov
Yevda Sasunovich Abramov (Azerbaijani: Yevda Sasunoviç Abramov; 12 June 1948 – 6 December 2019) was an Azerbaijani politician. He served as a Member of the 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 Mountain Jew, representing part of the Azerbaijani Jewish community.[2][3] LifeYevda Abramov was born in the village of Krasnaya Sloboda 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
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