 In 1898, he moved to Erivan; in 1903, he moved to Tiflis where he became a columnist for the local "Sharqi-Rus" newspaper published in the Azeri language where he published his first short story the Postbox after is read by the writer Muhammad agha Shakhtakhtinski he encouraged him to publish in Sharqi-Rus.In March of 1903, he met one of a close friend and colleague Omar Faig Nemanzade who also becomes a prominent journalist in his own right.however, Sharqi-Rus didn't last long and only after publishing for two years in 1905 it was shut down.