Kamran Baghirov Mammad oglu ( az, Камран Бағиров Мәммәд оғлу, italic=no, Kamran Bağirov Məmməd oğlu; January 24, 1933 – October 25, 2000), was the 12th First Secretary 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 the ...

Biography

From December 3, 1982, through May 21, 1988, Baghirov served as the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan SSR. After start and escalation of the

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is an ethnic and territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, inhabited mostly by ethnic Armenians, and seven surrounding districts, inhabited mostly by Azerbaij ...

, he was replaced by Abdurrahman Vazirov. Baghirov is often blamed for deterioration of the economy of Azerbaijan which was boosted when his predecessor

Heydar Aliyev Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev ( az, Һејдәр Әлирза оғлу Әлијев, italic=no, Heydər Əlirza oğlu Əliyev, ; , ; 10 May 1923 – 12 December 2003) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani politician who served as the third president of Aze ...

was in office. He was also blamed for widespread corruption. From February 1988 when the conflict around

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(NKAO) started, until his removal from office, Baghirov has been considered as an inactive leader who allowed exodus of ethnic Azerbaijanis from Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, and inability to prevent the escalation of the conflict. Baghirov was bashed for his passiveness in allowing the NKAO's party leader,

Boris Kevorkov Boris Sarkisovich Kevorkov ( hy, Բորիս Կևորկով) (1932–1998) was the First Secretary of the "Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast Committee" of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. He was appointed in 1973 ...

to be replaced by

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, Genrikh Poghosyan subsequently causing the direct rule of NKAO by

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References

1933 births 2000 deaths Politicians from Shusha First secretaries of the Azerbaijan Communist Party Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Tenth convocation members of the Soviet of the Union Eleventh convocation members of the Soviet of the Union Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Burials at II Alley of Honor {{Azerbaijan-bio-stub