Yevda Abramov


Yevda Sasunovich Abramov was an Azerbaijani politician. He served as a Member of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan from 2005 until his death in 2019. and Deputy chairman of Azerbaijani National Assembly's Committee on Human Rights. Abramov was a Mountain Jew, representing part of the Azerbaijani Jewish community.

Life

Born in the village of Krasnaya Sloboda of Quba Rayon, June 12, 1948, Yevda Abramov came from Cohen roots, a Jewish family 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.
Yevda Abramov graduated from the History faculty of Azerbaijan State Pedagogical Institute. He spoke Azeri, Russian, Turkish and Persian fluently. Since 1971 he was a teacher and the deputy director at a secondary school in Quba region and since 1987 he was the chairman of the Executive Committee 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.
From 1986 until 1999 he was in regional politics before he joined the President's New Azerbaijan Party.
On November 6, 2005 he was elected as Member of Parliament from Quba-Qusar constituency No. 53. In the parliament, he served as deputy chair of the Standing Commission of the Milli Mejlis on Human Rights; head of Azerbaijan-Israel Working Group on Interparliamentary Relations; head of Azerbaijan-Argentina, Azerbaijan-Cuba and Azerbaijan-Russia Working Groups on Interparliamentary Relations. He was a proponent of creating a corner dedicated to Azerbaijani Genocide by Armenians in the largest Holocaust museum.
Yevda Abramov was married, with four children. Three of his children live in Israel and one of his sons serves as an officer in the IDF.
Abramov died in Baku on 6 December 2019 at the age of 71.