This report is the first scientific study in Azerbaijani historiography on the life and work of a member of the Majlisi-Mabusan (Parliament) of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1918-1920) Asadulla Ahmed oglu Ahmedzade (1860-1941). When writing the report, materials from the State Archive of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Archive of the State Security Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Central State Historical Archive of Moscow, periodicals and reference literature, verbatim reports of the Parliament, family archive materials and other resources. For the first time, the report provided extensive and comprehensive information about the life path, as well as about the important economic, social and political activities of A.Ahmedzade, as a merchant of the 2nd guild, director of the Baku pawnshop, an active deputy of the Baku City Duma and a member of Parliament... in preventing the Armenian aggression against the Muslim population committed in Baku in 1905 and 1918, the creation of the Baku Muslim Charitable Society, the development of the Neshri-Maarif society and the strengthening of the independent Republic of Azerbaijan. A certain place in the report is occupied by his prison life in 1930. The study also reflects information about the heirs of A.Ahmadzadeh. So, his son Agha (Mamed)sadyk Ahmedov (1892-1930), who received higher education back in tsarist times at the Moscow Commercial Institute and at the Medical Faculty of Kharkov University, worked in the diplomatic corps at the Consulate of Azerbaijan in Istanbul in the early 1920s, and his grandson, Lieutenant General Kerim Kerimov (1917-2003) was chairman of the USSR State Commission for 25 years for Flight Tests of spacecraft.
Keywords: Asadulla Ahmedzade, Baku City Duma, Pawnshop, Parliament, Kerim Kerimov.