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Heydar Aliyev

1923 - 2003

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Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev (Azerbaijani: Heydər Əlirza oğlu Əliyev (Latin), Һејдәр Әлирза оғлу Әлијев (Cyrillic), IPA: [hejˈdæɾ æliɾˈzɑ oɣˈlu æˈlijef]; Russian: Гейда́р Али́евич Али́ев, IPA: [ɡʲɪjˈdar ɐˈlʲijɪvʲɪtɕ ɐˈlʲijɪf]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heydar Aliyev has received more than 1,313,621 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Heydar Aliyev is the 607th most popular politician (up from 703rd in 2019), the most popular biography from Azerbaijan (up from 3rd 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 607 out of 15,577. Before him are Gorm the Old, Taejo of Goryeo, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, Peleus, and Honorius. After him are Charles I of Anjou, Emperor Jimmu, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Chun Doo-hwan, Charles the Simple, and Juliana of the Netherlands.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Heydar Aliyev ranks 8. Before him are Maria Callas, Lee Kuan Yew, Shimon Peres, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Idi Amin, and Wisława Szymborska. After him are Charlton Heston, Marcel Marceau, Irma Grese, Rocky Marciano, Wojciech Jaruzelski, and Italo Calvino. Among people deceased in 2003, Heydar Aliyev ranks 9. Before him are Idi Amin, Leni Riefenstahl, Johnny Cash, Gregory Peck, Robert K. Merton, and Alija Izetbegović. After him are Barry White, Maurice Gibb, Nina Simone, Edward Teller, Ilya Prigogine, and Edward Said.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev ranks 1 out of 189. After him are Nizami Ganjavi (1141), Richard Sorge (1895), Lev Landau (1908), Ilham Aliyev (1961), Zecharia Sitchin (1920), Arghun (1250), Mstislav Rostropovich (1927), Garry Kasparov (1963), Imadaddin Nasimi (1369), Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901), and Lotfi A. Zadeh (1921).

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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), Ayaz Mutallibov (1938), Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh (1884), Garegin Nzhdeh (1886), Artur Rasizade (1935), Ali Asadov (1956), Fatali Khan Khoyski (1875), and Mir Jafar Baghirov (1896).

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