Azerbaijani writer. Born in Shaki, Azerbaijan.  Was born into peasantry. Joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1929.  In 1932 after graduating from the university in Bakinsk, he began working as a journalist and his work started to be published.   Many of his poems were very much in line with the Communist Party – for example, in 1953 his grand poem "The Train Below a Red Flag" praised Soviet intervention in India.   His novel Zengaur was translated into Russian in 1959.  Abasov is remembered for his vivid poems dealing with third-world nations struggling for freedom and social justice; he is also remembered for his children’s poems and translations from the works of Russian poet Samuel Marshak, and the Polish poet Julian Tuvim.  He died on December 18, 1957 in Baku, Azerbaijan.