Shikhali Gurban oglu Gurbanov ( az, Şıxəli Qurban oğlu Qurbanov; 1925,
Baku—May 24, 1967, Baku) was an
Azerbaijani writer, philologist and statesman.
Assassination
On May 24, 1967, he was murdered by a lethal injection of
cyanic acid
Isocyanic acid is a chemical compound with the structural formula HNCO, which is often written as . It is a colourless, volatile and poisonous substance, with a boiling point of 23.5 °C. It is the predominant tautomer of cyanic acid ().
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, while visiting a dentist. The dentist escaped and was never found.
The murder reportedly happened shortly before the extraordinary plenum of
Azerbaijan Communist Party
The Azerbaijan Communist Party ( az, Azərbaycan Kommunist Partiyası; russian: Коммунистическая партия Азербайджана) was the ruling political party in the Azerbaijan SSR, making it effectively a branch of th ...
, where Gurbanov was expected to be elected the First Secretary of the Party.
1925 births
1967 deaths
Communist writers
Azerbaijani philologists
Azerbaijani literary theorists
Deaths by poisoning
People murdered in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani murder victims
Azerbaijan Communist Party (1920) politicians
20th-century philologists
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