Today, Azerbaijan commemorates the 16th death anniversary of late president Haydar Aliyev visiting the Alley of Honour.
Eurasia Diary reports that the President of Azerbaijan and his family members attended a commemoration ceremony for Azerbaijani national leader with accompaniment of ministers and high-level officials of the government.
The officials who visited in the Alley of Honour placed a wreath on the tomb of Aliyev and the national anthem was played.
Following the official commemoration ceremony, the Alley of Honor was opened to the public.
Heydar Alirza oglu Aliyev was born on 10 May 1923 in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. After graduating from the Nakhchivan Pedagogical School in 1993, he studied at the Architecture faculty of the Azerbaijan Industry Institute (present Azerbaijan State Oil Academy). The incipient war impeded to complete his education. In 1941, Heydar Aliyev headed the department at the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Nakhchivan.
He was sent to work at the state security bodies in 1944. Heydar Aliyev, working since that time in the security bodies, from 1964 held the post of deputy chairman, and from 1967 chairman of the Committee of State Security under the Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, and he was conferred the rank of lieutenant general. These years, he received special higher education in Leningrad (present St. Petersburg), and in 1957 he graduated from the History faculty of the Azerbaijan State University. Being elected at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan in July,1969 as the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev became the head of the republic. In December 1982, Heydar Aliyev was elected a member of Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Soviet Union, and appointed to the post of the First Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the USSR, and became one of the leaders of the USSR. During twenty years, Heydar Aliyev was the Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and for five years was Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
In October 1987, Heydar Aliyev, as a sign of protest against the policy pursued by Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and personally the Secretary General Michael Gorbachev, resigned from his post. In bound with the tragedy committed on 20 January 1990 in Baku by the soviet troops appearing in the next day at the Azerbaijan Representation in Moscow with a statement Heydar Aliyev demanded to punish the organizers and executors of the crime committed against the people of Azerbaijan.
As a sign of protest against the hypocritical policy of leadership of the USSR, in connection with the critical conflict accrued in Daghlig Garabagh, in July 1991 he left the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. By return in July 1990 to Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev lived in Baku, then in Nakhchyvan, and in the same year was elected a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan. In 1991-1993, he held the post of Chairman of the Supreme Assembly of the Autonomous Republic of Nakhchyvan, Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
In 1992, at the constituent congress of the New Azerbaijan Party in Nakhchyvan, Heydar Aliyev was elected Chairman of the Party.
In May-June 1993, the growing extreme tensions in the government structure began to lead the country to the verge of civil war and loss of independence. As a result of this, the people of Azerbaijan demanded to bring to power Heydar Aliyev. The former leaders of Azerbaijan were obliged to officially invite Heydar Aliyev to Baku. On 15 June 1993, Heydar Aliyev was elected Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan, and on 24 July - on resolution of the Milli Mejlis, he commenced to fulfill powers of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. On October 3, 1993, after the nationwide voting, Heydar Aliyev was elected President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Heydar Aliyev is the National Leader, patriot and great leader of the world Azerbaijanis. He was one the greatest politicians in Azerbaijan and the former Soviet republics. During his presidency Heydar Aliyev strengthened the political and economic relations of Azerbaijan with the world's top countries. He was the friend of many political leaders, poets, actors from across the world. Heydar Aliyev not only as a political leader but also as father of the nation will remain in memories of Azerbainai nationals.
