Aliya Teregulova

Aliya Teregulova was born on 13 May 1913 in Tbilisi.[2] Since the age of ten, she was regularly involved in music activities.[3] In 1930, Teregulova graduated Azerbaijan State Turkish Music College.[1]

From 1932, she was a soloist of the Opera and Ballet Theater.[2] In 1937, Teregulova graduated from the vocal department of the Azerbaijan State Conservatory.[4] When the Azerbaijan State Theater of Musical Comedy was opened in 1938, she was invited to the troupe.[3]

Since 1942, Teregulova worked as an actress at the Musical Comedy Theater.[2] The same year she played in the play “Let it be, let it be” directed by Shamsi Badalbeyli.[5] In 1943, Teregubova was awarded a title of Honored Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan.[3]

In 1949, when the Azerbaijan State Theater of Musical Comedy was closed, Teregulova worked in the Musical Variety Ensemble, created at the Philarmonic and the Theater of the Young Spectator.[4] In 1955, she worked at the Vakhtangov Theater in Moscow.[2] After reopening the Musical Comedy Theater in 1956, she worked there for some time.[3]

For the last 10 years of her life, Aliya Teregulova lived in Moscow and died there on 14 March 1968.[4]

• 1932 – Handless people (full-length feature film)