Chingiz Abdullayev was born on 7 April 1959 in the city of Baku, into a family of intellectuals. Chingiz Abdullayev comes from a fourth-generation family of jurists. On his father's side, his great-grandfather was already working as a lawyer's assistant in Baku back in the 1890s. His father, Abdullayev Akif Abdulla oghlu, was a participant in the Great Patriotic War and served as a prosecutor in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, deputy prosecutor in the city of Baku, and chairman of the Presidium of the Bar Association of Azerbaijan. Ch. Abdullayev finished city school No. 189 in Baku (1976). He continued his education at the law faculty of Azerbaijan State University (1976–1981).
