ALEXANDER BAGRI AND THE SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH AND STUDY OF AZERBAIJAN

Abstract

The Azerbaijan Research and Study Society was created in 1923. The Society also included a folklore commission. Many prominent figures of Azerbaijan of that period participated in the work of the commission. One of these prominent scientists was Alexander Vasilyevich Bagriy.
The famous scientist A.V. Bagri was born in 1891 in Ukraine. In 1912 he was educated at Kiev University. He was a student of Academician V.N. Peretz. Since 1923 he worked in Baku.
He was a professor at Baku University. He also worked as director of the library of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences. A. V. Bagri died in 1949.
A.V.Bagri prepared and published a book of Azerbaijani bibliography for the first time.
He collected and published Azerbaijani fairy tales. He also published articles on the folklore of the peoples of the Caucasus. A.V. Bagri organized various literary seminaries, wrote many scientific articles about Azerbaijani folklore and its problems.