Kek Kinyaz Ibrahim Mirzoyev was born in 1947 in the village of Zengibasara, Armenia. He completed his studies in Rewan and did his doctorate on the relations between Kurdish and Azeri literature at the University of Rewan and the Department of Oriental Studies. Until 1990, he managed the department of Middle Eastern languages. He received a professorship in the department of philology at the University of Saint Petersburg.