List of leaders of Azerbaijan's state security agencies

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

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

Heads of the Azerbaijani Cheka, GPU and OGPU edit

#	Name	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

#	Name	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	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

#	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	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	Term in office
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

^ "00895" Агрба Алексей Сергеевич (in Russian). Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991.
^ ^a ^b СУМБАТОВ (ТОПУРИДЗЕ) ЮВЕЛЬЯН ДАВИДОВИЧ (in Russian). memo.ru.
^ "04401" Раев Михаил Григорьевич (Каминский Яков Семёнович) (in Russian). БСЭ.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ЕМЕЛЬЯНОВ СТЕПАН ФЕДОРОВИЧ (in Russian). memo.ru.
^ ^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)

External links edit

[1] "00895" Агрба Алексей Сергеевич (in Russian). Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991.

[SumTop-2] СУМБАТОВ (ТОПУРИДЗЕ) ЮВЕЛЬЯН ДАВИДОВИЧ (in Russian). memo.ru.

[3] "04401" Раев Михаил Григорьевич (Каминский Яков Семёнович) (in Russian). БСЭ.

[memo-4] ЕМЕЛЬЯНОВ СТЕПАН ФЕДОРОВИЧ (in Russian). memo.ru.

[Jan-5] 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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