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Heydar Aliyev
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Heydar Aliyev

1923 – 2003 · aged 80

3rd President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1923–2003)

Born
10 May 1923 · Nakhchivan
Died
12 Dec 2003 · Cleveland
Part ofAzerbaijan1139 – todaySoviet Union1848 – 1991Islam557 CE – todayShia Islam721 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 92 years
  1. 10 May 1923BornBorn in Nakhchivan
  2. 1941 – 1945WarEastern Front
  3. 1945AwardMedal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
  4. 1945AwardMedal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
  5. 1948AwardJubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"
  6. 1949AwardMedal "For Labour Valour"
  7. 1954AwardMedal "For Battle Merit"
  8. 1957AwardJubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
  9. 1959AwardMedal "For Impeccable Service", 2nd class
  10. 1960AwardHonorary Officer of the State Security
  11. 1962AwardOrder of the Red Star
  12. 1964AwardHonorary Certificate of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR
  13. 1964AwardMedal "For Impeccable Service", 1st class
  14. 1965AwardJubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
  15. 1967 – 1969RoleChairman of the State Security Committee of the Azerbaijan SSR
  16. 1969 – 1982RoleFirst Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan
  17. 1976 – 1982RoleCandidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee
  18. 1982 – 1987RoleMember of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee
  19. 1982 – 1987RoleFirst Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR
  20. 1988 – 1994WarFirst Nagorno-Karabakh War
  21. 1991 – 1993RoleChairman of the Supreme Assembly of Nakhchivan
  22. 1992 – 2003RoleParty leader
  23. 1993RoleChairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Azerbaijan
  24. 1993 – 2003RolePresident of Azerbaijan
  25. 12 Dec 2003DiedDied in Cleveland

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1923 – 2003).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  12. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  13. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  14. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  15. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  17. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  18. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  20. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  21. 1956Suez Crisis
  22. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  23. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  24. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  26. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  28. 1968Prague Spring
  29. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  30. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  31. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  32. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  34. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  35. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  36. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  37. 1985Schengen Agreement
  38. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  39. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  40. 19901990 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev (10 May 1923 – 12 December 2003) was an Azerbaijani politician who was a Soviet party boss in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic from 1969 to 1982, and the third president of Azerbaijan from 1993 to 2003.

He was a high-ranking official in the KGB of the Azerbaijan SSR, serving for 28 years in Soviet state security organs (1941–1969). He governed Soviet Azerbaijan from 1969 to 1982 as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan. He held the post of First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1987. He rose through the ranks due to his close associations with Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov.

Aliyev was installed as president of Azerbaijan after the 1993 military coup ousted President Abulfaz Elchibey. Elchibey was a prominent Soviet dissident and Azerbaijani nationalist leader who had been elected as president in independent Azerbaijan's first free election in 1992. Aliyev's installation as president put an end to Azerbaijan's short post-independence democratic interlude. Shortly after taking charge, Aliyev organized a presidential election where he won nearly 99% of the vote.

His regime in Azerbaijan has been described as dictatorial, authoritarian, and repressive. He was also said to have run a heavy-handed police state where elections were rigged and dissent was repressed. A cult of personality developed around Aliyev, which has continued after his death in 2003. Shortly before his death, his son Ilham Aliyev was elected president in a fraudulent election and continues to lead Azerbaijan to this day.

Text from the Wikipedia article Heydar Aliyev, CC BY-SA 4.0

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