Nadir Nadirov ( kk, Нәдір Кәрімұлы Нәдіров, ''Nádir Kárimuly Nádirov''; russian: Надир Каримович Надиров; 6 January 1932 – 24 August 2021) was a

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engineer from

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. He was born in the

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and his family was deported to Kazakhstan in 1933. He was the president of association of Kurds in Kazakhstan (''Berbang'') and the first vice-president of the Engineering Academy of Kazakhstan. He was also director of the Neft scientific center. In 1992, he went public with the accounts of mass deportation of Kurds in the former

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during the 1930s and 1940s.Israel W. Charny, ''The Widening Circle of Genocide'', Transaction Publishers, 1994, , p.170

Books

#N.K. Nadirov, A.P. Popov, ''Protein from Petroleum'', U.S. Joint Publications Research Service, Springfield, Virginia, 1974. #N.K. Nadirov, N. S. Nametkin, ''Podsolevye nefti Prikaspiĭskoĭ vpadiny'', 302 pp., Izdvo Nauka Kazakhskoi SSR, 1983.(in Russian) #N.K. Nadirov, N. Markovich, ''Токоферолы и их использование в медицине и сельском хозяйстве'', 334 pp., 1991. #N.K. Nadirov, ''Kurds of Kazakhstan'', 556 pp., 2003 (in Russian). #N.K. Nadirov, ''Tengiz: more nefti, more problem'', 2003, .

References

External links

Interview with Academician Nadir Nadirov
, Kazakh Pravda, 2002.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nadirov, Nadir 1932 births 2021 deaths People from the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic Recipients of the Order of Kurmet Recipients of the Order of Parasat Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Kazakhstani engineers Kazakhstani people of Kurdish descent Kurdish scholars Kurdish scientists Soviet engineers