Today marks the 30th anniversary of the death of the national hero of the television journalist Genghis Mustafaeva.
Already during his lifetime, one of the most famous journalists of Azerbaijan, Genghis Mustafaev became an example for a whole generation of youth, which grew in the most difficult years of independent Azerbaijan. Many tried to resemble him, and some chose journalism as a profession, having a model of his bright reporter career.
Mustafaev came to journalism in fateful times for Azerbaijan, when the country was torn by problems, and then the war with Armenia began to work today. It was the war in Karabakh that finally determined his path of the teleporter and brought him to the peak of glory.
After school, Genghis Mustafaev graduated from the Azerbaijan State Medical Institute and worked as a doctor in the Divichinsky district (Shabra), and then – the head physician in the sanatorium at the Institute of Construction Engineers.
Under his leadership in October 1991, the 215 CL studio was created, which stood out against the backdrop of the then Azerbaijani television, and Mustafaev himself turned into a popular host of this studio “Nobody will be forgotten” and “face to face.” As a reporter, the public of the republic first saw him in video shows shot during the bloody January events of 1990.
The Karabakh period of the life of Genghis as a reporter and the operator occupies a separate place not only in the history of Azerbaijani television, but in general in the history of Azerbaijan.
When Armenia unleashed a war against Azerbaijan, Genghis completely devoted himself to military journalism. There was no such hot point, wherever Genghis appeared with his camera. On June 15, 1992, during fierce battles in the village of Nakhchwanles in Karabakh, Genghis Mustafaev was killed by a fragment of an enemy min.
The Haqqin.az editors mourn the outstanding Azerbaijani television journalist.