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Heydar Aliyev

1923 - 2003

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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 October 1993 to October 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heydar Aliyev is the 660th most popular politician (down from 469th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Azerbaijan (down from 1st in 2019) and the most popular Azerbaijani Politician.

Heydar Aliyev was the president of Azerbaijan from 1993 to 2003. He was also a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and served as the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Heydar Aliyev ranks 660 out of 19,576. Before him are Hatice Sultan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Michael VIII Palaiologos, Theodosius II, Anastasios II, and Emperor Wu of Han. After him are Valerius Severus, Hugo Chávez, George II of Great Britain, Constantius Chlorus, Abdulmejid II, and Norodom Sihanouk.

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Among people born in 1923, Heydar Aliyev ranks 9. Before him are Lee Kuan Yew, Shimon Peres, Philip Warren Anderson, Wisława Szymborska, Idi Amin, and Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. After him are Charlton Heston, Joseph Heller, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Irma Grese, Italo Calvino, and Nadine Gordimer. Among people deceased in 2003, Heydar Aliyev ranks 5. Before him are Charles Bronson, Leni Riefenstahl, Katharine Hepburn, and Idi Amin. After him are Edward Teller, Johnny Cash, Gregory Peck, Alija Izetbegović, Barry White, Robert K. Merton, and Maurice Gibb.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev ranks 2 out of 232. Before him are Nizami Ganjavi (1141). After him are Lev Landau (1908), Ilham Aliyev (1961), Richard Sorge (1895), Mstislav Rostropovich (1927), Garry Kasparov (1963), Arghun (1250), Imadaddin Nasimi (1369), Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901), Abulfaz Elchibey (1938), and Zecharia Sitchin (1920).

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Among POLITICIANS In Azerbaijan

Among politicians born in Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev ranks 1. After him are Ilham Aliyev (1961), Arghun (1250), Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901), Abulfaz Elchibey (1938), Artur Rasizade (1935), Ayaz Mutallibov (1938), Garegin Nzhdeh (1886), Ali Asadov (1956), Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh (1884), Fatali Khan Khoyski (1875), and Mir Jafar Baghirov (1896).

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