Today marks 22 years since the passing of the National Leader of the Azerbaijani people, Heydar Aliyev, APA reports.
The memory of the National Leader is honored with deep respect both in Azerbaijan and abroad.
Heydar Alirza oglu Aliyev was born on 10 May 1923 in the city of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan.
Starting in 1944, Heydar Aliyev worked within the system of security agencies. From 1964, he served as Deputy Chairman of the State Security Committee under the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan SSR, and from 1967, as Chairman of that committee, rising to the rank of Major General. During those years, he received specialized higher education in Leningrad, and in 1957 he graduated from the Faculty of History of Azerbaijan State University.
At the July 1969 plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan SSR, Heydar Aliyev was elected First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan SSR.
In December 1982, Heydar Aliyev was elected a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, becoming one of the leaders of the Soviet Union.
In October 1987, in protest at the policy pursued by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and personally by Secretary General Mikhail Gorbachev, Heydar Aliyev resigned from his posts.
The day after the bloody tragedy committed by the Soviet troops in Baku on the night of 19-20 January 1990, Heydar Aliyev made a statement at Azerbaijan`s Representative Office in Moscow demanding to punish the organizers and executors of the crime against the people of Azerbaijan. As a sign of protest against the hypocritical policy of the USSR leadership towards the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, he left the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in July 1991.
After returning to Azerbaijan in July 1990, Heydar Aliyev first lived in Baku, then in Nakhchivan, and in the same year he was elected a deputy to the Supreme Council of Azerbaijan. From 1991 to 1993, he served as Chairman of the Supreme Assembly of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic and Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
In 1992, at the founding congress of the New Azerbaijan Party held in the city of Nakhchivan, Heydar Aliyev was elected Chairman of the party.
On June 15, 1993, Heydar Aliyev was elected Chairman of the Supreme Council of Azerbaijan, and on June 24, by the decision of the Milli Majlis, he began exercising the powers of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. On October 3, 1993, as a result of a nationwide vote, Heydar Aliyev was elected President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In the subsequent presidential elections held on October 11, 1998, he was re-elected President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Although he agreed to run in the presidential elections scheduled for October 15, 2003, Heydar Aliyev withdrew his candidacy due to health problems.
After undergoing long-term treatment at the Cleveland Clinic in the United States, Heydar Aliyev passed away on December 12, 2003.
He was buried in the Alley of Honor.
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