Ibrahim Ismayil oglu Mammadov (; 20 December 1958 – 16 February 1994) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani military leader. He was awarded the title,

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(1994) posthumously.

Life

Ibrahim Ismayil oglu Mammadov was born on December 20, 1958, in the Nakhchivan city, in

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. He finished secondary school # 3 in Nakhchivan city in 1976. He was called for military service after working for a Water Construction Company for a year. After being demobilized from the army in 1979, he went to

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and started working at a Car Factory. While working and living in Moscow, he entered the Correspondence Department of the History Faculty of

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in 1988 and graduated from in 1993. He took also a very active part in the meetings conducted by Azerbaijani people in

in order to show the truth about

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to the world. He was married and had two children.

Battles

Mammadov returned to

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along with his family after Khojaly tragedy. He was enlisted in one of the Self Defense Battalions that consisted of volunteers. After Voluntary Battalions were cancelled, he continued his fight against the enemy as a company commander within the National Army in 1993. He was later sent to

Kalbajar Kalbajar ( ; ) is a city and the capital of the Kalbajar District of Azerbaijan. Located in the Tartar Valley, it is away from the country's capital city Baku. Before the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the city had a population of 7,246 people. I ...

along with his battalion. On the 16th of February, 1994, in the battle for the strategically important height of Kalbajar region he was shot by a sniper in the last moment and died in the battlefield."Naxçıvan Ensiklopediyası" - 2 cilddə, II cild, Naxçıvan, 2005, səh 30.

Awards

He was posthumously awarded the title of the

by the decree #156 of the president of

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on the 20th of June, 1994. He was buried in the Alley of Martyrs in Nakhcivan city.

References

External links

National Hero - Ibrahim Ismayil oglu Mammadov
*Vüqar Əsgərov. "Azərbaycanın Milli Qəhrəmanları" (Yenidən işlənmiş II nəşr). Bakı: "Dərələyəz-M", 2010, səh. 197. {{DEFAULTSORT:Mammadov, Ibrahim 1958 births 1994 deaths People from Nakhchivan Azerbaijani military personnel of the Nagorno-Karabakh War Azerbaijani military personnel killed in action National Heroes of Azerbaijan