Today is the National Leader Heydar Aliyev’s Memorial (Commemoration) Day

Today have passed 21years since the death of Heydar Aliyev the National Leader of the Azerbaijani people.

Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev was born on 10 May, 1923 in Nakhchivan.

Heydar Aliyev, who worked in the security services since 1944, served as Deputy Chairman of the State Security Committee under the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan SSR from 1964, and as Chairman from 1967, rising to the rank of Major General.

Heydar Aliyev, who was elected a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in December 1982, was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and became one of the leaders of the USSR.

Heydar Aliyev resigned from his posts in October 1987 in protest against the political line taken by the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.

Heydar Aliyev, who returned to Azerbaijan in July 1990, first lived in Baku and then in Nakhchivan, and in the same year was elected a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan. In 1991-1993, he was the Chairman of the Supreme Assembly of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic and Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Heydar Aliyev, who was elected Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan on 15 June, 1993, began to exercise the powers of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan by the decision of the Milli Majlis on 24 June. As a result of a nationwide vote on 3 October, 1993, Heydar Aliyev was elected President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. He was re-elected President of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the next presidential elections held on 11 October, 1998.

Heydar Aliyev, who was treated for a long time at the Cleveland Clinic in the United States, died on 12 December, 2003.

He was buried in the Alley of Honor.