The political handwriting of Heydar Aliyev: how did a boy who dreamed of becoming an architect build a new Azerbaijan?

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"Azerbaijan is striding wide" – such a high assessment of the republic was given by Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev in Baku in September 1982. This is the last trip of the Secretary-General to the country.

"It was really a real assessment of the amazing breakthrough that happened to Azerbaijan exactly when Heydar Aliyev headed the republic," said Mikhail Gusman, First Deputy Director General of TASS.
He was appointed in the late 60s. By that time Azerbaijan was mired in corruption. Bribes solved any issues: to get a sick leave, and to take a high position.


"I have turned against myself a huge number of people who, using their official position, acquired a lot of benefits illegally," said national leader of the Azerbaijani people Heydar Aliyev.


The first decision of Heydar Aliyev as the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan SSR was the eviction of members of the Central Committee from luxury apartments.


"A very fair approach to the concept of personnel. And that he categorically did not forgive when these people showed their corrupt interests," Mikhail Gusman stressed.


At the age of 46, Heydar Aliyev has already gone from an ordinary operative to a general. The details of his work are still classified. He is known to have worked in Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Then he headed the KGB of the Azerbaijan SSR. A precedent of Union significance. Previously, people were sent to such positions from Moscow. And he took risks and was generally ready to leave the service for love.


Zarifa, nee also Alieva, is a student of the medical Institute. Her father, the People's Commissar of Health, was in disgrace. Heydar and Zarifa met secretly, and lived together for 32 years.


"They couldn't live or breathe without each other. When Heydar Aliyevich started speaking, Zarifa Azizovna answered: "Yes, Heydar Aliyevich", "No, Heydar Aliyevich". That is, she did not miss a single comma in his not that speech, but in his breathing," Tamara Sinyavskaya, People's Artist of the USSR, shared her memories.


During the 13 years that Aliyev has been heading the republic, more than a hundred large enterprises have been opened and launched. In the Caspian Sea, oil is being extracted from floating platforms, they allow you to descend to a great depth. There is a large-scale housing construction in the capital.


After Brezhnev's trip, resolute Aliyev is transferred to Moscow. Now he is a member of the Politburo and the first deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Aliyev supervised the construction of BAM. He is the only one of the leaders of the USSR who drove it from and to and scored a "golden crutch" in the last link of the highway of all-Union significance.


"Of course, Andropov saw Aliyev in the near future as the head of the Soviet government. I am convinced that this would have been the case if Andropov had lived, maybe for another year," Mikhail Gusman said.


Heydar Aliyev did not work well with the new Secretary General. Gorbachev did not approve of his initiative. Aliyev criticized the "dry law". Many guessed: a member of the Politburo in disgrace.


A close friend of Heydar Aliyev, Muslim Magomayev, wrote this music in April 1985, when he learned that Zarifa Aliyeva had passed away. Viral videos

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