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* Madagiz offensive , current_commander =

Hikmat Hasanov Hikmat Huseyn oglu Hasanov (; born 1975) is an Azerbaijani major general, who is the commander of the 1st Army Corps (since December 2014). He is a laureate of the 3rd degree " For Service to the Fatherland" order. Life and service Hikmat Hasa ...

, notable_commanders =

Najmeddin Sadikov Najmeddin Huseyn oghlu Sadikov ( az, Nəcməddin Hüseyn oğlu Sadıkov; born May 24, 1956) is an Azerbaijani Colonel General who served as the incumbent Chief of the General Staff of Azerbaijani Armed Forces and the First Deputy Minister of Def ...

The 1st Army Corps ( az, 1-ci Ordu Korpusu), also referred to as the Barda Army Corps is a regional

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of the

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. It is considered to be the most dangerous, strategic post of the Armed Forces. Most of its units are located on the Armenian border with

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. It is currently led by Major General

. It is currently deployed from Barda, which is south of

Yevlakh Yevlakh ( az, Yevlax, ) is a city in Azerbaijan, 265 km west of capital Baku. It is surrounded by, but administratively separate from, the Yevlakh District. Etymology The settlement is mentioned by the 13th century Armenian historian Step ...

near

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History

Raised in on 3 March 1992 the corps descends from the Azerbaijani 701st Motor Rifle Brigade, 708th Motor Rifle Brigade, and the 130th Motor Rifle Brigade.C. W. Bland
Azerbaijan: Is War Over Nagornyy Karabakh a Realistic Option? Advanced Research and Assessment Group. Caucasus Series 08/17. — Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, 2008, p.12
The former Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces General Najmaddin Sadikov made a great contribution to the establishment of the military unit, becoming the first commander of the unit. Among the operations it took part in were the

Battle of Kalbajar The Battle of Kalbajar took place in March and April 1993, during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. It resulted in the capture of the Kalbajar District of Azerbaijan by Armenian military forces. Kalbajar lies outside the contested enclave of t ...

Karabakh operations

During the

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, the corps took part in clashes in

Madagiz Madagiz ( hy, Մատաղիս, Mataghis) or Sugovushan (, ), is a village in the Tartar District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

. It would later be captured by the Azerbaijani forces on 3 October. On 9 December, President

Ilham Aliyev Ilham Heydar oghlu Aliyev ( az, İlham Heydər oğlu Əliyev, ; born 24 December 1961) is the fourth president of Azerbaijan, serving in the post since 31 October 2003. The son and second child of the former Azerbaijani leader Heydar Aliyev, ...

signed a decree to award General Hasanov with the

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, congratulating the corps at the same time for their work. Deputy corps commander

Babak Samidli Babak Matlab oglu Samidli (; 1974-2020) was an Azerbaijani military officer, and a colonel serving in the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. He was deputy commander of the 1st Army Corps. Life and service Samidli was born in the Goychay District. In Jun ...

led part of the corps in the Madagiz offensive, giving an interview to

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on 27 October announcing the capture of the Sarsang Reservoir. He was later killed by a mine in a post ceasefire collection of bodies.

Composition

The corps HQ is in

Barda, Azerbaijan Barda ( az, Bərdə ) is a city and the capital of the Barda District in Azerbaijan, located south of Yevlax and on the left bank of the Tartar river. It served as the capital of Caucasian Albania by the end of the 5th-century. Barda became the chi ...

. Among the brigades is the 701st Motorized Rifle Brigade, the first unit in the military. The brigades have artillery, tank, anti-tank, reconnaissance, communication and other subdivisions. The armament of choice are the

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tanks,

BTR-82A The BTR-80 (russian: бронетранспортёр, bronyetransportyor, literally "armoured transporter") is an 8×8 wheeled amphibious armoured personnel carrier (APC) designed in the USSR. It was adopted in 1985 and replaced the previous ...

armored personnel carriers, and the

BMP-2 The BMP-2 (''Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty'', , literally "combat machine/vehicle (of the) infantry") is an amphibious infantry fighting vehicle introduced in the 1980s in the Soviet Union, following on from the BMP-1 of the 1960s. Development hist ...

. The total staff of the brigades are estimated at 3500-4000 people.

Commanders

* Major General Nizam Osmanov (2002-2014) * Major General

(since 2014)

Gallery

File:Hikmət_Həsənov_2.jpg, Hasanov at a

military parade A military parade is a formation of soldiers whose movement is restricted by close-order manoeuvering known as drilling or marching. The military parade is now almost entirely ceremonial, though soldiers from time immemorial up until the lat ...

Baku Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...

in mid-2018. File:1st Army Corps at the Victory parade.jpg, Members of the corps at the

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References

{{Azerbaijani Armed Forces 1992 establishments in Azerbaijan Military units and formations established in 1992 Army corps of Azerbaijan Military units and formations of Azerbaijan in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war