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Hokuma Gurbanova
Hökümə Qurbanova
Born (1913-06-11)June 11, 1913Baku, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire (present-day Azerbaijan)
Died November 2, 1988(1988-11-02) (aged 75)Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Occupations Film actress stage actress
Years active 1933–1988

Hokuma Abbasali gizi Gurbanova[a] (June 11, 1913 – November 2, 1988) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet stage and film actress who was born and died in Baku. People's Artist of the USSR (1965).

Hokuma Gurbanova was born in Baku, Russian Empire. In 1931, she graduated from a pedagogical college in Baku. From 1931 to 1932, she studied piano at the Baku Academy of Music.

Gurbanova was briefly married to actor Alasgar Alakbarov and gave birth to a daughter, Naila. Gurbanova had another daughter, Vafa, also an actress, from her second marriage to stage decorator Nusrat Fatullayev.

Gurbanova's career as an actress began in 1933, at the Azerbaijanfilm studio, when she played the role of Yakhshi in one of the earliest Soviet Azerbaijani feature films Almaz, chosen for the role by screenwriter Jafar Jabbarly himself. From 1938, she performed in a troupe of Azerbaijan State Academic National Drama Theatre in various drama genres. Hokuma Gurbanova was a member of the Union of Cinematographers’ of the Azerbaijan SSR[1] and member of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR of the 7th and 8th convocations.

She died on November 2, 1988, in Baku and was buried in the Alley of Honor.[2]

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    • Azerbaijani: Hökümə Abbasəli qızı Qurbanova
    • Russian: Окума Аббас кызы Курбанова, romanized: _Okuma Abbas kyzy Kurbanova

  2. ^ "Курбанова, Экюма Абас Али кызы — RuData.ru". Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2013-04-22.

  3. ^ "Курбанова Окума Аббас кызы (1913-1988)". Retrieved 2013-04-22.