List of leaders of Azerbaijan's state security agencies

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The following is a comprehensive ist of leaders of Azerbaijan's state security agencies since the republic's establishment in 1918.

Azerbaijan Democratic Republic[edit]

See also: Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

Heads of the Organization to struggle against counterrevolution of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic[edit]

# Name Photo Term in office Party affiliation
1 Mamedbaghir Sheikhzamanly June — August 1919 Musavat
2 Naghi Sheikhzamanly August 1919 — March 1920 Musavat

Azerbaijan SSR[edit]

See also: Azerbaijan SSR

Heads of the Azerbaijani Cheka, GPU and OGPU[edit]

# Name Photo Term in office Party affiliation
Chairmen of Azerbaijani Extraordinary Commission (Azerbaijani Cheka)
1 Semen Pankratov May — June 1920 Communist Party
2 Baba Aliyev June — October 1920 Communist Party
3 Eyyub Hanbudagov October 1920 — February 1921 Communist Party
4 Mir Jafar Baghirov February 10, 1920 — 1923 Communist Party
Chairmen of the GPU of the Azerbaijan SSR
1 Mir Jafar Baghirov 1923 — September 7, 1926 Communist Party
Chairmen of the OGPU of the Azerbaijan SSR
1 Mir Jafar Baghirov September 7, 1926 — May 22, 1927 Communist Party
2 Novruz Rizayev May 22, 1927 — 1929 Communist Party
3 Mir Jafar Baghirov September 7, 1929 — August 6, 1930 Communist Party
4 Mikhail Frinovsky 1930 — April 1933 Communist Party
5 Aleksey Agrba April 19, 1933 — March 31, 1934[1] AUCP(b)
6 Yuvelian Sumbatov-Topuridze February 26, 1934 — July 10, 1934[2] Communist Party

Minister of Internal Affairs (Azerbaijan) - People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan SSR[edit]

See also: Minister of Internal Affairs (Azerbaijan) and People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan
# Name Photo Term in office Party affiliation
1 Hamid Sultanov April 28, 1920 - June 1, 1921 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
2 Mir Jafar Baghirov October 5, 1921 - May 22, 1927 Communist Party
3 Novruz Rizayev May 22, 1927 - Jule 10, 1929 Communist Party
Stepan Yemelianov August 1, 1929 - ? Communist Party
Yuvelyan Sumbatov-Topuridze January 1, 1937 - January 10, 1938[2] Communist Party
Mikhail Rayev January 10, 1938 - November 12, 1938[3] Communist Party
Stepan Yemelianov February 11, 1939 - February 26, 1941[4] Communist Party
Mir Teymur Yagubov March 6, 1941 - June 1, 1943 Communist Party
Aghaselim Atakishiyev July 10, 1943 - June 6, 1953 Communist Party

People's Commissar and Ministers of State Security of the Azerbaijan SSR[edit]

(List incomplete)

# Name Photo Term in office Party affiliation
People's Commissar of State Security of the Azerbaijan SSR
1 Stepan Yemelianov February 26 — July 31, 1941[4] Communist Party
Stepan Yemelianov May 7, 1943[4] — January 1947[5] Communist Party
Ministers of State Security of the Azerbaijan SSR
1 Stepan Yemelianov January 1947[5] — March 16, 1953[4] Communist Party

Minister of Internal Affairs (Azerbaijan) - Ministers of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan SSR[edit]

See also: Minister of Internal Affairs (Azerbaijan) and Ministers of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan SSR
# Name Photo Term in office Party affiliation
1 Stepan Yemelianov March 16, 1953 - July 29, 1953 Communist Party
2 Anatoliy Guskov August 8, 1953 - March 25, 1954 Communist Party

In 1953, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Azerbaijan SSR and the Ministry of Public Security of the Azerbaijan SSR were merged into a single Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan SSR. In 1954 was founded the KGB of Azerbaijan SSR.

Chairmen of the KGB of Azerbaijan SSR[edit]

# Name Photo Term in office Party affiliation
1 Anatoliy Guskov 1954 — 1956 Communist Party
2 Fyodor Kopilov September 26, 1956 — August 1959 Communist Party
3 Alexander Kardashov August 1959 — October 12, 1963 Communist Party
4 Semen Svigun October 21, 1963 — 1967 Communist Party
5 Heydar Aliyev June 21, 1967 — July 14, 1969 Communist Party
6 Vitaliy Krasilnikov June 1969 — June 18, 1980 Communist Party
7 Ziya Yusifzadeh 1980 — 1988 Communist Party
8 Ivan Gorelovsky August 11, 1988 — August 19, 1989 Communist Party
9 Vagif Huseynov August 19, 1989 — September 13, 1991 Communist Party
10 Ilhuseyn Huseynov September 1991 — May 1992 Communist Party

Ministers of National Security of Azerbaijan[edit]

# Name Photo Term in office Party affiliation
1 Fakhraddin Tahmazov May 16, 1992 — 1993
2 Nariman Imranov 1993 — October 15, 1994
Acting Namig Abbasov October 1994 — March 1995
3 Namig Abbasov March 1995 — July 2004
3 Eldar Mahmudov since July 23, 2004

References[edit]

  1. ^ "00895" Агрба Алексей Сергеевич (in Russian). Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991.
  2. ^ a b СУМБАТОВ (ТОПУРИДЗЕ) ЮВЕЛЬЯН ДАВИДОВИЧ (in Russian). memo.ru.
  3. ^ "04401" Раев Михаил Григорьевич (Каминский Яков Семёнович) (in Russian). БСЭ.
  4. ^ a b c d ЕМЕЛЬЯНОВ СТЕПАН ФЕДОРОВИЧ (in Russian). memo.ru.
  5. ^ a b С. В Степашин, В. П Ямпольский, Федеральная служба контрразведки РФ. Академия (1995). Органы государственной безопасности СССР в Великой Отечественной войне: Накануне : 1 января-21 июня 1941 г. Vol. 2. Книга и бизнес. p. 55. ISBN 9785809000062.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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