Complex sentence: In 1968-1973 he studied literature and linguistics in the faculty of Philology at Baku State University, and in 1977 obtained a PhD in the Department of Turkic languages of the Institute of Linguistics at Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1968-1973 he studied the literature and linguistics in the faculty of Philology at Baku State University. After graduation in 197 he was doing a PhD degree in Department of Turkic languages of the Institute of Linguistics at Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow.