Mammad Alakbarov

Mammad Hamid oghlu Alakbarov (, 1899 — 7 February 1959) was a Soviet Azerbaijani bureaucrat and pedagogue who was the first Minister of Culture of Azerbaijan (1953–1955), Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan SSR (1952–1953) and Minister of Education of the Azerbaijan SSR (1947–1952).

Biography Mammad Alakbarov was born in 1899 in Lankaran. After the death of his father Mashadi Hamid in 1909, he lived under the care of his relatives, studied at the "Behjat" Russian-Tatar (Azerbaijani) school in Lankaran, but was unable to complete his education.

Until 1920, he worked in his cousin's fish farm. After the establishment of the Soviet government in Azerbaijan, he was sent to the 1st grade school in Astrakhan-Bazar as a teacher after completing a teacher training course. In 1921, he started working at school No. 5 in Lankaran. Alakbarov studied at the Pedagogical Institute in Baku in 1923–1926, and as a specialist with higher education he taught in Balaxanı, Bashkechid region of Borchaly Uyezd. He worked as the head of the Public Education Department of Guba district.

Alakbarov was admitted to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1943. The same year, he became director of the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical Institute. He became deputy commissioner of public education of the Azerbaijan SSR a year later. In 1947, he was appointed Minister of Public Education of the Azerbaijan SSR, held this position for five years, and then served as Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan SSR. From 1953 he was the Minister of Culture of the Azerbaijan SSR.

Mammad Alakbarov died on 7 February 1959, after a long and serious illness.