NATIONAL LEADER OF AZERBAIJANI PEOPLE HEYDAR ALIRZA OGLU
ALIYEV
Heydar Alirza oglu Aliyev was born on 10 May, 1923 in Nakhchivan City of
Azerbaijan. In 1939, after graduating from the Nakhchivan Pedagogical School he
studied at the Architecture Department of the Azerbaijan Industry Institute (present
Azerbaijan State Oil Academy). The incipient war impeded to complete his education.
From 1941, Heydar Aliyev headed the department at the People’s Commissariat
of Internal Affairs of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Nakhchivan and in
1944 was sent to work at the state security bodies. Heydar Aliyev, working since that
time in the security bodies, from 1964 held the post of deputy chairman and from 1967
chairman of the Committee of State Security under the Cabinet of Ministers of the
Republic of Azerbaijan and he was conferred the rank of lieutenant general. These
years, he received special higher education in Leningrad (present St Petersburg) and in
1957 he graduated from the History Department of the Azerbaijan State University.
Being elected at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of
Azerbaijan in July, 1969 as the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev became the head of the Republic. In
December, 1982 Heydar Aliyev was elected a member of Political Bureau of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of Soviet Union, and appointed to the post of the
First Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the USSR and became one of the
leaders of the USSR. During twenty years, Heydar Aliyev was the Deputy of the
Supreme Soviet of the USSR and for five years was Deputy Chairman of the Supreme
Soviet of the USSR.
In October, 1987 Heydar Aliyev, as a sign of protest against the policy pursued by
Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
and personally the Secretary General Michael Gorbachev, resigned from his post.
In bound with the tragedy committed on 20 January, 1990 in Baku by the soviet
troops appearing in the next day at the Azerbaijan Representation in Moscow with a
statement Heydar Aliyev demanded to punish the organizers and executors of the crime
committed against the people of Azerbaijan. As a sign of protest against the hypocritical
policy of leadership of the USSR, in connection with the critical conflict accrued in
Daghlig Garabagh, in July, 1991 he left the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
By return in July, 1990 to Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev lived in Baku, then in
Nakhciyvan, and in the same year was elected a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of
Azerbaijan. In 1991-1993, he held the post of Chairman of the Supreme Assembly of the
Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan, Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the
Republic of Azerbaijan. In 1992, at the constituent congress of the New Azerbaijan
Party in Nakhchivan, Heydar Aliyev was elected Chairman of the Party.
In May-June 1993, when, as a result of extreme tension of the governmental crisis,
the country was at the verge of civil war and loss of independence, the people of
Azerbaijan demanded to bring to power Heydar Aliyev. The then leaders of Azerbaijan
were obliged to officially invite Heydar Aliyev to Baku. On 15 June, 1993 Heydar
Aliyev was elected Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan, and on 24 July - on
resolution of the Milli Mejlis, he commenced to fulfill powers of the President of the
Republic of Azerbaijan.
On October 3, 1993 as a result of nationwide voting, Heydar Aliyev was elected
the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. On October 11, 1998, having garnered at
the elections, passed in high activeness of the population, 76,1 percent of the votes, he
was re-elected President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. By the end of 2003 Heydar
Aliyev was the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Heydar Aliyev was awarded a number of state orders and medals, international
awards, elected honorable doctor of universities in many countries.
Heydar Aliyev was awarded the Lenin Order four times, Order of Red Star,
numerous medals, also orders and medals of foreign countries, received rank of the Hero
of the Socialistic Labor twice.
On 27 March, 1997 the head of the state of Azerbaijan was awarded in Kiev the
"Yaroslav Mudry" Order, the supreme order of Ukraine.
On 13 April, 1999 President Heydar Aliyev was awarded the "Peace Premium of
Ataturk" Order, the high order of Turkey.
On 20 January, 1999 President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev was
awarded the rank of the Honorable Professor of Moscow State University.
On 3 April, 2003 President Heydar Aliyev was elected professor and full member
of the Academy of Safety, Defence and Legal Norms Problems of the Russian
Federation, awarded the premium of Y.V.Andropov.
On 10 May, 2003 decree was signed on awarding Heydar Aliyev the Order of
Saint Apostle Andrey Pervozvanny, the supreme order of Russia.