He was born in 1877 in Guba district in a merchant family. He was one of the prominent intellectuals in Guba. Therefore, when the Republic of Azerbaijan was established in 1918, the people of Guba considered him worthy of parliamentary membership. Murtuza Bey joined the Musavat faction and was one of the 96 members of parliament. He was 41 years old at the time. After the Republican Parliament handed over the government to the Bolsheviks under certain conditions on April 28, 1920, the Bolsheviks did not comply with any of the conditions, and the new government began to erase the traces of the previous government. Everyone connected with the republic either left the country secretly in order to return and change something, or were destroyed by the Bolshevik-Dashnaks in various ways. Assassinations and shootings became commonplace. Many intellectuals of the time were shot on the island of Nargin as “enemies of the people.” One of these martyrs, who wrote his name in the glorious pages of history, was Murtuza Akhundzadeh, who was shot in 1920 as an “enemy of the people” and was acquitted only 72 years later.
