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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 1,442,281 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). Heydar Aliyev is the 469th most popular politician (up from 606th in 2019), the most popular biography from Azerbaijan 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 469 out of 19,576. Before him are Stephen Báthory, Mary of Burgundy, Atahualpa, Narmer, Yongle Emperor, and Imre Nagy. After him are Frederick I of Prussia, Louis II of Hungary, Guy of Lusignan, Louis the German, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, and Sukarno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Heydar Aliyev ranks 5. Before him are Henry Kissinger, Maria Callas, Shimon Peres, and Lee Kuan Yew. After him are Idi Amin, Wisława Szymborska, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Rocky Marciano, Charlton Heston, Italo Calvino, and Wojciech Jaruzelski. Among people deceased in 2003, Heydar Aliyev ranks 5. Before him are Edward Teller, Katharine Hepburn, Leni Riefenstahl, and Charles Bronson. After him are Idi Amin, Robert K. Merton, Alija Izetbegović, Gregory Peck, Johnny Cash, Barry White, and Maurice Gibb.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev ranks 1 out of 232. After him are Nizami Ganjavi (1141), Ilham Aliyev (1961), Lev Landau (1908), Richard Sorge (1895), Mstislav Rostropovich (1927), Arghun (1250), Garry Kasparov (1963), Imadaddin Nasimi (1369), Abulfaz Elchibey (1938), Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901), 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), Abulfaz Elchibey (1938), Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901), Ayaz Mutallibov (1938), Artur Rasizade (1935), Garegin Nzhdeh (1886), Ali Asadov (1956), Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh (1884), Fatali Khan Khoyski (1875), and Mir Jafar Baghirov (1896).

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