Alakbar Muradov was born on 1 August 1948 in Baku. He studied at the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry (1966–1971) and at the cinematography faculty of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow (1973–1978). He has worked at the "Azerbaijanfilm" film studio and at AzTV's "Ekran" ("Screen") Creative Union. For a time he worked at Lider TV and at Public TV.
