Suleyman Vazirov (, ) —
Soviet
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statesman of
Azerbaijani origin, organizer of the oil industry in
Azerbaijan SSR
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, first Minister of Oil Industry in the republic from 1954 to 1959.
Biography
Suleyman Vazirov was born in 1910 in
Shusha
Shusha (, ) or Shushi () is a city in Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Situated at an altitude of 1,400–1,800 metres (4,600–5,900 ft) in the Karabakh mountains, the city was a mountain resort in the Soviet Union, Soviet ...
to Vazirov family. His father,
Azad bey Vazirov, received military training in
St. Petersburg
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and was a
rittmeister
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A is typically in charge of a s ...
, and her mother, Zahra khanum, was the daughter of the famous doctor of his time,
Karim bey Mehmandarov
Abdul Karim bey Mirza Mustafa bey oghlu Mehmandarov (, 2 December 1854 – 20 December 1929) was a Russian and Soviet medical doctor of Azerbaijani ethnicity. He was one of the first ethnic Azerbaijanis to graduate from the Medico-Surgical Academ ...
. Suleyman Vazirov studied at the
Shusha Real School, then entered the Baku Industrial and Economic College. In addition to studying at the technical school, he was also working as a cinema mechanic's assistant. After graduating from technical school, he began working in
Bibi-Heybat oil rig.
In 1928, he entered the mining faculty of
Azerbaijan Technical University
Azerbaijan Technical University (AzTU; ) is a public university, specialized in engineering, located in Baku, Azerbaijan. The University has 9 schools and 54 departments, 884 faculty members and approximately, 10.000 students.
History
November 14 ...
, which he graduated in 1932. He served as head of the Main Directorate for Oil Production in the Southern and Western Regions of the USSR MNP (1946-1949), Minister of the Oil Industry (1954-1959), Chairman of the National Economy Council (1959-1965), Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1965-1970), Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR (1970-1973).
Besides that he was an elected a member of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Azerbaijan
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and the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Turkmenistan
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. He served as deputy of the
Supreme Soviet of the USSR
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of the 3rd, 5th and 6th convocations (in 1950-1954 and 1958-1966), the Azerbaijan SSR of the 4th, 7th and 8th convocations (in 1955-1959 and since 1967) ...
He died on February 7, 1973, after a long illness.
He was buried in
Baku
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on the
Alley of Honor
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.
Family
He was married to Valida Vazirova (1920-2012), daughter of
Rashid bey Akhundzadeh,
Governor of Baku in 1919 during
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
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*Tadeusz Swietochowski. ''Russia and Azerbaijan: ...
. Together they had:
* Shamil Vazirov (1942-2001) - Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor
* Murad Vazirov (1947-1996)
* Rauf Vazirov - married to Fidan Rzayeva, daughter of
Rasul Rza
Rasul Rza (real name Rasul Ibrahim oghlu Rzayev – ) (1910 – 1981 in Baku), was an Azerbaijani writer, Hero of Socialist Labour (1980), People's Poet of Azerbaijan, Laureate of Soviet State Award and the Chairman of the Writers' Union of Azer ...
and
Nigar Rafibeyli
Nigar Khudadat qizi Rafibeyli () (1913–1981, Baku) was an Azerbaijani writer and the Chairman of the Writers' Union of Azerbaijan. She was the mother of Anar Rzayev, novel and short-story writer, and the wife of the famous writer and poet Rasul ...
in 1968
Awards
*
Hero of Socialist Labor
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(24 January 1944)
Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР «О присвоении звания Героя Социалистического Труда работникам нефтяной промышленности» от 24 января 1944 года
// Ведомости Верховного Совета Союза Советских Социалистических Республик : газета. — 1944. — 3 февраля (№ 6 (266)). — С. 1
* Order of Lenin
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(27.4.1940; 24.1.1944; 8.1.1948; 19.3.1959 - four times)
* Order of the Red Banner of Labor
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(6/6/1942; 1/28/1950; 5/15/1951; 12/10/1960; 5/23/1966; 8/25/1971 - six times)
* Stalin Prize of the third degree (1951) - for the discovery and development of a new oil field
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References
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1910 births
1973 deaths
Azerbaijan Technical University alumni
Heroes of Socialist Labour
Recipients of the Stalin Prize
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Members of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
Third convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Fifth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Sixth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Burials at Alley of Honor
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