Isgender Aznaurov () (16 August 1956,

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– 18 April 1993,

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) is a

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, and the warrior of the

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Biography

Isgender Aznaurov was born on 16 August 1956 in the village of Galaosiyo of Bukhara Province of

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into a Turkish Meskhetian family. From 1963 through 1973, he went to a secondary school. After completing his military service in

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, he was admitted to the

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in 1978 from which he graduated in 1983. After his graduation, he worked in the Ahangaran District of the Tashkent Province. In 1989, after riots broke out between the

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who had settled in

and the native Uzbeks in the

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of Uzbekistan, hundreds of thousands of Meskhetian Turks fled into exile. The majority, about 70,000, went to

.. Aznaurov's family moved to Azerbaijan in 1990 and settled in the Kyur village of

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. After a while, he started to work in the device manufacturing factory.

Military service

When the Nagorno Karabakh conflict started, Aznaurov joined the ranks of the

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as a volunteer in 1992. He severely damaged the positions of Armenians and deployed several ammunition depots. Before the attacks in the summer of 1993, Aznaurov heavily destroyed the most important positions of the Armenians by gunfire. On 18 April 1993, he died in a battle around the Orukdash village of

. He was buried at Martyrs' Lane in

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Family

Aznaurov was married and had three children.

Awards

Aznaurov was posthumously awarded the title of "

" by Presidential Decree No. 262 dated 15 January 1995. * 1995 –

* 1998 –

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Memorial

A secondary school No. 1 in Kyur village of Shamkir District was renamed after him.

Filmography

In 2013, a documentary entitled ''The Heroes of the İmpregnable Fortress'' was released. It looks into memorials surrounding the lives and battlefields of Aznaurov as well as three other National Heroes of Azerbaijan:

Mazahir Rustamov Mazahir Rustamov (''Rustamov Mazahir Izzet oglu''; 1960, Baku – 1992, Gadabay District), was a National Hero of Azerbaijan. Early life Vital Rustamov Mazahir Izzet oglu was born on March 2, 1960, in , in an intelligent family. In 1977 he graduat ...

, Ilham Aliyev and

Aytakin Mammadov Aytakin Israel oglu Mammadov () (29 May 1967, Gadabay, Azerbaijan SSR – December 1991, Goygol District, Goygol, Azerbaijan Republic) — was the military serviceman of Azerbaijan Armed Forces, warrior during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War and N ...

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References

Sources

* *Vugar Asgarov. ''Azərbaycanın Milli Qəhrəmanları'' (Yenidən işlənmiş II nəşr). Bakı: "Dərələyəz-M", 2010, səh. 43–44. {{DEFAULTSORT:Aznaurov, Isgender 1956 births 1993 deaths Azerbaijani people of Turkish descent Meskhetian Turkish people Azerbaijani military personnel of the Nagorno-Karabakh War Azerbaijani military personnel killed in action National Heroes of Azerbaijan People from Bukhara Region