to work in Azerbaijan State Academic Philharmonic Hall named after Muslim Magomayev, and later became the director. During these years the composer wrote poems fortepiano and among them were “Lezghinka”, “Variations”, songs “Branchy gold” (Jarkov’s lyrics), “Don’t be proud”, “I love you”, “Kind country, Azerbaijan”. In 1959, the composer created “Song about Moscow” cantata for the second decade of Azerbaijani culture in Moscow. During these years he wrote a lot of songs for drama spectacles, for “Anthony Grant’s crime” piece of M. Volibranskiy and R.Rubinstein, “When blossoms acacia” of M.Vishnyakov. During these decades were written a lot of musical pieces for some films by Tofig Guliyev, which achieved great popularity “Under sultry sky” (1958), “Bakhtiyar” (1959), “Could he be forgiven?” (1959). 1960-1970s Active creativity in musical-social activity was mentioned in the 1960s-1970s. Tofig Guliyev is the participant of many international conferences, festivals, art holidays. In 1962, he took part at conference dedicated to development problem of musical art and exchange of cultural experience by the Academy of Arts invitation and later he participated at holding of Days of Azerbaijani art in Czechoslovakia, where he composed songs “Bratislava” and “Song about Prague”, which became popular in Czechoslovakia. During this period, Tofig Guliyev led the delegation of Azerbaijani actors in Bulgaria, Poland and Italy. During many years, he was the first secretary of the Union of Azerbaijani Composers. Give consideration to training of new personnel of composers, led holdings of composer plenums, musical festivals, conferences, conventions. He often made reports and articles dedicated to various problems of Azerbaijani art. In 1966, during the Decade of Russian culture in Azerbaijan, Tofig Guliyev composed a new song-“Kind country, Azerbaijan” with a composer Solovyev-Sedoy. During this period he created cycle of international songs: “Moldova” (1966), cycle of songs about Georgia. In 1972, The International Exhibition Demonstrating Azerbaijani Culture was opened with Tofig Guliyev’s “Oilmen” song in Brussels. In the 1980s to 1990s, Tofig Guliyev was engaged in social activities. Tofig Guliyev’s creativity was highly evaluated-he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR, and title of the laureate of Lenin Komsomol Prize of the Azerbaijan SSR. He died on October 5, 2000, at the age of 82 after prolonged illness. He was buried in the Alley of Honor, in Baku. Activity in the film sphere Tofig Guliyev was the author of melodies and songs to the film: “Meeting” (1955), “Favourite song” (1955),