Suleyman Vazirov (, ) —

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

statesman of Azerbaijani origin, organizer of the oil industry in

Azerbaijan SSR Azerbaijan ( az, Азәрбајҹан, Azərbaycan, italics=no), officially the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (Azerbaijan SSR; az, Азәрбајҹан Совет Сосиалист Республикасы, Azərbaycan Sovet Sosialist R ...

, first Minister of Oil Industry in the republic from 1954 to 1959.

Biography

Suleyman Vazirov was born in 1910 in Shusha to Vazirov family. His father,

Azad bey Vazirov , native_name_lang = , birth_name =Azad bey Mirza Hamid bey oglu Vazirov , other_name = , nickname = , birth_date = , birth_place = Shusha, Shusha Uyezd, Imperial Russia , death_date = , death_place = Qazvin, Q ...

, received military training in St. Petersburg and was a rittmeister, 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 ( az, Əbdül Kərim bəy Mirzə Mustafa bəy oğlu Mehmandarov, 2 December 1854, Shusha–20 December 1929, Shusha) was a Russian Empire and Soviet medical doctor of Azerbaijani ethnicity. He wa ...

. 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; az, Azərbaycan Texniki Universiteti) is a public university, specialized in engineering, located in Baku, Azerbaijan. The University has 9 schools and 54 departments, 884 faculty members and approximately 6 ...

, 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 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 ...

and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan. He served as deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 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

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on the Alley of Honor.

Family

He was married to Valida Vazirova (1920-2012), daughter of Rashid bey Akhundzadeh, Governor of Baku in 1919 during Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. 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 and Nigar Rafibeyli in 1968

Awards

* Hero of Socialist Labor (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 The Order of Lenin (russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina, ), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration b ...

(27.4.1940; 24.1.1944; 8.1.1948; 19.3.1959 - four times) * Order of the Red Banner of Labor (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 * Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" * Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"

References

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