Imam Dashdemir oglu Mustafayev ( az, Ымам Дашдәмир оғлу Мустафајев, italic=no, Imam Daşdəmir oğlu Mustafayev; 25 February 1910 – 10 March 1997) was an

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politician and First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party of the Azerbaijan SSR. Son of a poor

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, he was born in a village of the Qakh region in

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. In 1928 he graduated from the Zaqatala Agricultural Technical School and in 1932 - the Institute of Agriculture of Azerbaijan (now Azerbaijan State Economic University). Since then he has conducted scientific research works. Mustafayev has been awarded with the

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and the Order of the Badge of Honor.

Political career

In 1940, he joined the Azerbaijan Communist Party and received many important encharges. In 1954, he was elected the First Secretary of Azerbaijan Communist Party. In 1956 together with the then chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR,

Mirza Ibrahimov Mirza Ibrahimov (Azerbaijani: Mirzə İbrahimov) (15 October 1911, Eyvaq, Sarab – 17 December 1993, Baku) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani writer, playwright, state and public figure. Mirza Ibrahimov was born in the village of Eyvaq in northweste ...

, he was able to introduce a new paragraph to the constitution of the Azerbaijan SSR that for the first time since the Soviet invasion declared

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the official language of the Azerbaijan SSR. As a result of this step which was not agreed upon with Moscow (out of fears of it getting refused) Azerbaijani acquired increasingly an important status in the entire country. This was the main reason behind his premature removal from power. Mustafayev was implicitly accused of nationalism, and on 12 June 1959 he was fired for "not being able to cope with his work" and was expelled from membership of the bureau of the Azerbaijan Communist Party Central Committee. After being removed from that office, he worked as the Director of

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1910 births 1997 deaths Azerbaijani atheists First secretaries of the Azerbaijan Communist Party Soviet Azerbaijani people People from Qakh People from Tiflis Governorate Azerbaijan State Agricultural Academy alumni Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Third convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Fourth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Fifth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples {{Azerbaijan-bio-stub