Eight years pass since the late Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev
died. That commemorative events have been organized in all regions of
Azerbaijan, as well as in the capital Baku.
Heydar Alirza oglu Aliyev was born on 10 May 1923 in Nakhchivan. In 1944
was sent to work at the state security bodies. Heydar Aliyev, working
since that time in the security bodies, since 1964 held the post of
deputy chairman, and since 1967 - chairman of the Committee of State
Security under the Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan Republic, and he
was conferred the rank of lieutenant general. In these years, he
received special higher education in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), and
in 1957, he graduated from the history department of 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 heads the
Republic.
In October 1987, Heydar Aliyev, as a sign of protest against the policy
pursued by Politburo 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 on the next day at the Azerbaijan
Representation in Moscow with a statement, 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 Nagorno
Karabakh, in July 1991, he left the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
By return in July 1990 to Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev has lived at first
in Baku, then in Nakhchivan, and on the same year he was elected as the
Deputy to the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan. In 1991-1993s, he held the
post of Chairman of the Supreme Mejlis of the Nakhchivan Autonomous
Republic, Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of
Azerbaijan. In 1992, at the constituent congress of the "Yeni
Azerbaijan" Party in Nakhchivan, Heydar Aliyev, was elected as the
Chairman of the Party.
On 15 June 1993, Heydar Aliyev was elected as the Chairman of the
Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan, and on 24 July - on resolution of the
Milli Mejlis, he managed to fulfill powers of the President of
Azerbaijan Republic.
On October 3, 1993, as the result of nationwide voting, Heydar Aliyev was elected as the President of Azerbaijan Republic.
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 as the President of Azerbaijan Republic.
Heydar Aliyev, giving his consent to be nominated as a candidate at the
15 October 2003 presidential elections, Heydar Aliyev relinquished to
run at the elections in connection with health problems.
On December 12, 2003 national leader of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev passed
away in Cleveland hospital in the United States of America.