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Azerbaijani politician (1930?2022)
Abdurrahman Vazirov Khalil oglu
(
Azerbaijani
:
?бд?рр??ман В?зиров Х?лил о?лу
,
romanized
:
?bdurr?hman V?zirov X?lil o?lu
; 26 May 1930 ? 10 January 2022) was the 13th
First Secretary
of the
Azerbaijan Communist Party
and the leader of the
Azerbaijan SSR
from 1988 till January 1990.
Vazirov was appointed by Kremlin to lead Soviet Azerbaijan in May 1988, amidst the heating of the
Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict. Vazirov replaced
Kamran Baghirov
, whose dismissal came along with similar dismissal of
Karen Demirchyan
and appointment of
Suren Harutyunyan
as the leader of the
Armenian SSR
.
[1]
He was a Soviet diplomat, who served in India, Nepal and
Pakistan
. He had been out of the Azerbaijan SSR for over a decade and therefore was untainted by the corruption.
[2]
He was neither a typical political boss nor a local nationalist; he could not even speak fluent
Azerbaijani
.
[3]
But at the same time, Vazirov was born in
Nagorno-Karabakh
region of
Azerbaijan SSR
.
Vazirov shared
Mikhail Gorbachev
's internationalist values and aspirations for political reform but he could not cope effectively with the complex political situation in Azerbaijan.
[3]
He was also known as a fierce opponent of the former leader of Soviet Azerbaijan and later the 3rd president of
independent Azerbaijan
,
Heydar Aliyev
.
He left Azerbaijan SSR amidst the
Black January
events in
Baku
, for which he was later sought by the
Parliament of Azerbaijan
as one of the responsible parties.
[4]
On 24 January 1990, he was replaced in his position by
Ayaz Mutallibov
.
Vazirov died on 10 January 2022, at the age of 91.
[5]
References
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edit
]
- ^
Lubomyr Hajda, Mark R. Beissinger.
The Nationalities Factor in Soviet Politics and Society
, Westview Press, 1990,
ISBN
0-8133-7644-0
, p. 233
- ^
Roland Grigor Suny. "Nationalism and Democracy in Gorbachev's Soviet Union: The Case of Karabagh", published in Rachel Denber.
The Soviet Nationality Reader: The Disintegration in Context
, Westview Press, 1992,
ISBN
0-8133-1027-X
, p. 494
- ^
a
b
Robert V. Barylski. "The Russian Federation and Eurasia's Islamic Crescent",
Europe-Asia Studies
, Vol. 46, No. 3. (1994), p. 397
- ^
Thomas Goltz.
Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-Rich, War-Torn, Post-Soviet Republic
, M. E. Sharpe, 1998,
ISBN
0-7656-0244-X
, p. 410
- ^
"Умер Абдурахман Везиров"
. APA.az. 10 January 2022
. Retrieved
10 January
2022
.
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Party political offices
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Preceded by
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First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party
1988–1990
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Succeeded by
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