Tbilisi State Azerbaijan Drama Theater

Fundamentals of the Azerbaijani Drama Theater in the mountains. Tiflis was founded in 1909 by a group of non-professionals showing / in the hotel courtyard (caravanserai) owned by the Tiflis merchant Hadji-Hashim Mardanov / the play based on the play by J.-B. Moliere, “A doctor involuntarily” in an adapted translation into the Turkic language and directing staged by Mirzakhan Kuliev, who also played the main role of The Physician / Healer in the play.

Tbilisi State Azerbaijan Drama Theater
Tiflis Azərbaycan Teatrı
Theater building
Location	Tbilisi
Address	st. Gorgasali , 1

Hadji-Hashim Mardanov is the father of the National Artist Azerb. SSR Mustafa Mardanov , who, after an unimaginable success, presented the above-mentioned building-structure to the Turkic-Tatar Drama Theater

Mirzakhan Kuliev / Kuli-zade / - during the tsarist era, the organizer and performer of religious mourning processions and productions of Tiflis Shiite Muslims, subsequently one of the founders of this theater is the honored artist Gruz. SSR.

Since 1922, the theater received the status of a state and became officially called the Tiflis State Azerbaijan Drama Theater. Two troupes were organized in the theater under the direction of Mir-Seyfeddin Kirmanshahly and Mirza-Khan Kuliev. The theater became a kind of forge of acting and directorial personnel for the entire Soviet (and even foreign East). A whole galaxy of theatrical art personnel was brought up and went through battle training within the walls of the theater: Ibrahim Isfahanli , Alekper Seyfi, Ali Gurbanov, Mirza-Ali Abbasov , Ashraf Yuzbashev, Movsun Sanani , Ismail Haggi, Ulvi Rajab , Ali-Akber Shakhsabahli, Lidiya ... many, many others.

The theater over the years of its dedicated work has become famous for its countless charity events, including long-term assistance to the starving Volga region. During the years of World War II, the artists of the Tbilisi State Azerbaijan Drama Theater constantly went to front-line positions with vivid cultural programs. In the post-Soviet period, personifying the warmth of relations between the two neighboring independent states of the South Caucasus, the Tbilisi-Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev Drama Theater, closed in the 50s of the 20th century under the influence of anti-national chauvinistic tendencies of the Soviet leadership, was restored with the mutual assistance of the governments of Georgia and Azerbaijan.