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Vazirovs
Vazirovs or Vezirovs () are an Azerbaijanis, Azerbaijani noble family from Karabakh and a part of Javanshir clan. Vazirov or Vezirov is a Russification, Russified version of the word ''vizier''. First person to adopt the surname was Azerbaijani historian and later Imperial Russian army officer Mirza Jamal Javanshir, who was a vizier of Ibrahim Khalil Khan and Mehdi Qoli Khan Javanshir, Mehdigulu Khan of Karabakh. History Connected to ruling family of Karabakh Khanate, Vazirovs were descended from Sharif beg Javanshir, head of Hajilu subclan of Javanshir clan. Sharif beg was great-grandfather of Mirza Jamal. Family had two branches - elder one based in Shusha and younger one based in Karyagino, modern Fuzuli (city), Fuzuli. Famous family members include politicians like Zeynal bey Vazirov, Bahram bey Vazirov; as well as poets, merchants and army officers. Penultimate leader of Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Azerbaijan, Abdurrahman Vazirov was also a member of this fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aslan Bey Vazirzade
Aslan bey Vazirzade or Aslan bey Vazirov (full name: ''Aslan bey Zeynalabdin bey oglu Vazirzade''; January 6, 1898, Baku - 1984, Baku) — one of the students of the Republic, Azerbaijani mineralogist, crystallographer and professor. Honored Scientist of the Azerbaijan SSR, philatelist. For some time, he headed the Azerbaijan Society of Philatelists Early life Aslan bey Zeynalabdin bey oglu Vezirzade was born on December 6, 1898. In 1915, he graduated from the Baku Real school with a gold medal and entered the Saint Petersburg Mining University, St. Petersburg Mining University. He left his studies due to the events that took place there and returned to Baku in 1917. He became a member of the Muslim Social Democratic Party in Baku. Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was founded on May 28, 1918. In 1919, the Ministry of Public Education of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic submitted to the Parliament of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic a draft law on sending 100 students to Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahram Bey Vazirov
Bahram bey Asad bey oghlu Vazirov (d. 23 December 1857; Mirzacamallı, Shusha uezd, Shemakha Governorate - d. 1921; Fuzuli District, Azerbaijani SSR) was an Azerbaijani politician, statesman, member of the Parliament of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and poet. Life Bahram bey Vazirov was born in 1857 in the village of Mirzajamalli, Jabrayil district (modern Fuzuli district). He graduated from the Shusha Realni School and entered the law faculty of Saint Petersburg State University. After finishing education he started work as a lawyer in his hometown. Vazirov is one of the participants of the Azerbaijani Freedom Movement during World War I and he became a member of the Parliament of Azerbaijani Democratic Republic which was established by Azerbaijani National Council on 7 December 1918. In the parliament he was deputy of the Ittihad fraction. After Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan, he, like many others, was declared a "public enemy", then Bolshevik government confiscate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeynal Bey Vazirov
Zeynal bey Vazirov ( Azerbaijani: Zeynal bəy Mirzə Həmid bəy oğlu Vəzirov; b. 1854, Shusha, Shemakha Governorate, Russian Empire - d. 1933, Baku, Azerbaijani SSR) was a public figure and member of the parliament of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. Life Zeynal bey Vezirov was born in 1854 in the city of Shusha, Shusha uezd, Shemakha Governorate (later renamed Baku) of the Russian Empire. He graduated from the Russian-Tatar (Azerbaijani) school. He worked in the Court of Appeal of the city of Elisavetpol (now Ganja). From there he was transferred to the position of clerk in the office of the military governor of Kars. After serving in Kars, Zeynal bey returned to Elisavetpol, where he worked as a translator. After working there for some time, he returned to the city of Shusha. After the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, he became a member of parliament from the Ittihad faction. His wife Durnis Khanum Vazirov was the daughter of Hashim Bek Vezirov. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdurrahman Vazirov
Abdurrahman Vazirov Khalil oglu ( az, Әбдүррәһман Вәзиров Хәлил оғлу, italic=no, Əbdürrəhman Vəzirov Xəlil oğlu; 26 May 1930 – 10 January 2022) was the 13th First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party and the leader of the Azerbaijan SSR from 1988 till January 1990. Vazirov was appointed by Kremlin to lead Soviet Azerbaijan in May 1988, amidst the heating of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Vazirov replaced Kamran Baghirov, whose dismissal came along with similar dismissal of Karen Demirchyan and appointment of Suren Harutyunyan as the leader of the Armenian SSR. He was a Soviet diplomat, who served in India, Nepal and Pakistan. He had been out of the Azerbaijan SSR for over a decade and therefore was untainted by the corruption. He was neither a typical political boss nor a local nationalist; he could not even speak fluent Azerbaijani.Robert V. Barylski. "The Russian Federation and Eurasia's Islamic Crescent", ''Europe-Asia Studies'', V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirza Jamal Javanshir
Mirza Jamal Javanshir () was an Azerbaijani historian and politician, best known as the author of ''Tarikh-e Qarabagh (History of Karabakh)''. Early life He was born in 1773 as a member of the Hajili clan of the Javanshir tribe. His father Mohammadkhan Beg was hereditary naib of Javanshir-Dizak mahal of the Karabakh khanate from 1777 to 1794.Description of the Karabakh province, compiled in 1823 by order of the general governor of Georgia - Yermolov, the state councilor of Mogilev and Colonel Yermolov. - Tbilisi. Printing house of the administration of the governor of the Caucasus. 1866 (in Russian: Описание Карабахской провинции, составленное в 1823 году по распоряжению главноуправляющего в Грузии Ермолова, действительным статским советником Могилевским и полковником Ермоловым 2-м. — Тифлис. Типография ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azad Bey Vazirov
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Suleyman Vazirov
Suleyman Vazirov (, ) — Soviet statesman of Azerbaijani origin, organizer of the oil industry in Azerbaijan SSR, first Minister of Oil Industry in the republic from 1954 to 1959. Biography Suleyman Vazirov was born in 1910 in Shusha to Vazirov family. His father, Azad bey Vazirov, received military training in St. Petersburg and was a rittmeister, and her mother, Zahra khanum, was the daughter of the famous doctor of his time, Karim bey Mehmandarov. Suleyman Vazirov studied at the Shusha Real School, then entered the Baku Industrial and Economic College. In addition to studying at the technical school, he was also working as a cinema mechanic's assistant. After graduating from technical school, he began working in Bibi-Heybat oil rig. In 1928, he entered the mining faculty of Azerbaijan Technical University, which he graduated in 1932. He served as head of the Main Directorate for Oil Production in the Southern and Western Regions of the USSR MNP (1946-1949), Minister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azerbaijan SSR
Azerbaijan ( az, Азәрбајҹан, Azərbaycan, italics=no), officially the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (Azerbaijan SSR; az, Азәрбајҹан Совет Сосиалист Республикасы, Azərbaycan Sovet Sosialist Respublikası, italics=no, links=no; russian: Азербайджанская Советская Социалистическая Республика зССРAzerbaydzhanskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika zSSR}), also referred to as Soviet Azerbaijan, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1991. Created on 28 April 1920 when the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic brought pro-Soviet figures to power in the region, the first two years of the Azerbaijani SSR were as an independent country until incorporation into the Transcausasian SFSR, along with the Armenian SSR and the Georgian SSR. In December 1922, the Transcaucasian SFSR became part of the newly established Soviet Union. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian Army consisted of more than 900,000 regular soldiers and nearly 250,000 irregulars (mostly Cossacks). Precursors: Regiments of the New Order Russian tsars before Peter the Great maintained professional hereditary musketeer corps known as '' streltsy''. These were originally raised by Ivan the Terrible; originally an effective force, they had become highly unreliable and undisciplined. In times of war the armed forces were augmented by peasants. The regiments of the new order, or regiments of the foreign order (''Полки нового строя'' or ''Полки иноземного строя'', ''Polki novovo (inozemnovo) stroya''), was the Russian term that was used to describe military units that were formed in the Tsardom of Russi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The army was established in January 1918. The Bolsheviks raised an army to oppose the military confederations (especially the various groups collectively known as the White Army) of their adversaries during the Russian Civil War. Starting in February 1946, the Red Army, along with the Soviet Navy, embodied the main component of the Soviet Armed Forces; taking the official name of "Soviet Army", until its dissolution in 1991. The Red Army provided the largest land force in the Allied victory in the European theatre of World War II, and its invasion of Manchuria assisted the unconditional surrender of Imperial Japan. During operations on the Eastern Front, it accounted for 75–80% of casual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azerbaijani Armed Forces
The Azerbaijani Armed Forces ( az, Azərbaycan Silahlı Qüvvələri) were re-established according to the Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the Armed Forces from 9 October 1991. The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR) had originally formed its own armed forces from 26 June 1918 but were dissolved after Azerbaijan was absorbed into the Soviet Union as the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic from 28 April 1920. After the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991–92, the armed forces were reformed based on Soviet bases and equipment left on Azerbaijani soil. The armed forces have three branches: the Azerbaijani Land Forces, the Azerbaijani Air and Air Defence Force, and the Azerbaijani Navy. Associated forces include the Azerbaijani National Guard, the Internal Troops of Azerbaijan, and the State Border Service, which can be involved in state defense under certain circumstances. According to the Azerbaijani media sources the military expenditures of Azerbaijan for 2009 were set at U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shusha Fortress
The Shusha fortress ( az, Şuşa qalası) or Shushi fortress ( hy, Շուշիի բերդ) is a fortress surrounding the historical centre of Shusha, also called Shushi. Newly established castle town was called "''Panahabad fortress''" named after Panah Ali Khan who was the founder of the fort. In later years, the city was just called "''Fortress''". The name of Shusha was probably derived from a nearby Armenian village called Shosh or Shushikent. The area where the Shusha fortress was built is a mountainous plateau in the form of amphitheater from the west with numerous hills and rifts. The highest area of plateau is 1600 m and the lowest area is 1300 m above sea level. At present, the territory of Shusha city consists of plateau with a hill located lengthwise in its center. The architecture of Shusha fortress represents basic principles of architecture of feudal period in terms of both the choice of location, structural planning and the artistic appearance of the fort. Shusha f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
