Sadykh bey Aghabekov ( az, Sadıx bəy Ağabəyov; March 15, 1865 – October 9, 1944) also spelled as Sadykh bey Aghabeyov was an Azerbaijani general in the

Russian Imperial Army The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian A ...

and Azerbaijani politician in

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, founder and reformer of Azerbaijani Police, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic,

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, Orientalist.

Early life

Sadykh bey Aghabekov was born on March 15, 1865, in Goychay city of the

Baku Governorate The Baku Governorate, known before 1859 as the Shemakha Governorate, was a province ('' guberniya'') of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, with its center in the booming metropolis and Caspian Sea port of Baku. Area (1897): 34,400 ...

. In 1883, he graduated from the Baku Realny School, after which he enrolled to the 2nd Konstantinovskoe Military School in St. Petersburg.

Military career

In 1886, Aghabekov began service in

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with the rank of

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. Ten years later, in 1896, successfully passing the exams, he was admitted to the St. Petersburg Institute of Oriental Languages at the General Staff. After graduating from this institute, in 1899 he was sent to

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for further military service. In 1913, Sadykh bey retired from army in the rank of

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due to illness. At the time of his military service in

, as a scientist-orientalist, he was collecting folk tales, epics and legends. As a result of titanic work, Sadykh bey published textbook "Turkmen dialect" for which the Emir of

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awarded him a special diploma. After retiring from the active military duty, Sadykh bey was confident that his military career ended and he would spend the rest of his life in his native Goychay. But after beginning of

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, he returned to the army and fought in battles in Caucasus and then on the Ukrainian front. In 1916, Aghabekov bey returned to his homeland and lived in his house in Goychay. By the decision of the Government of

on October 23, 1918, Sadykh bey was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan. In early October 1919, on behalf of the government, Sadiq Bey met with General James Harbort, the Personal Representative of the President of the United States, in Batumi. Sadig Bey accompanied the presidential envoy from October 4-10 and provided him with a bodyguard. Upon arrival in Baku, General Harbort visited the house of Haji Zeynalabdin Tagiyev. He noted in his speech that Sadig Bey is a man of high intellectual potential, and he has never met such a highly educated and interesting man among the military. His term lasted until December 1919. Sadykh bey was a reformer of law enforcement system in Azerbaijan.

Later years

After occupation of

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, Sadykh bey emigrated to

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with his family. He then moved to

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...

, where he taught

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and Persian at the Sorbonne for 2 years. In Paris, he had another strike of fate - death of his wife Gulnara. After death of his wife, at the invitation of Zygmunt Smogorzewski he moved to

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where he started to work in Faculty of Philosophy in

Lviv University The University of Lviv ( uk, Львівський університет, Lvivskyi universytet; pl, Uniwersytet Lwowski; german: Universität Lemberg, briefly known as the ''Theresianum'' in the early 19th century), presently the Ivan Franko Na ...

and later in

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, where he taught Turkish, Persian, and

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. In 1931 Sadykh bey published his Turkish textbook in Polish. In 1932, he published textbook about elementary grammar of Arabic, which had been written on the base of the second edition of the New Arabic Grammar by

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. During the Nazi occupation, he was evicted from his apartment. In 1943, he felt ill and on October 9, 1944, he died. Aghabekov was buried in Lviv in Lychakiv Cemetery. One of Lviv streets was named in honor of Sadykh bey Agabekov. There is a tombstone on his grave in the Lviv cemetery.

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Early life

Military career

Later years

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