List of leaders of Azerbaijan's state security agencies explained

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

Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

See also: Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

Heads of the Organization to struggle against counterrevolution of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

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

Azerbaijan SSR

See also: Azerbaijan SSR.

Heads of the Azerbaijani Cheka, GPU and OGPU

	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

See also: Minister of Internal Affairs (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	Communist Party
	Mikhail Rayev		January 10, 1938 - November 12, 1938^[3]	Communist Party
	Stepan Yemelianov		February 11, 1939 - February 26, 1941	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

(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 — January 1947^[5]	Communist Party
Ministers of State Security of the Azerbaijan SSR
1	Stepan Yemelianov		January 1947 — March 16, 1953	Communist Party

Minister of Internal Affairs (Azerbaijan) - Ministers of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan SSR

See also: Minister of Internal Affairs (Azerbaijan).

	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

	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

	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

External links

• HEADS OF SPECIAL SERVICES OF AZERBAIJAN
• Органы ВЧК-ГПУ-ОГПУ в Закавказье. (1918-1934 гг.)

Notes and References

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3. News: ru:Раев Михаил Григорьевич (Каминский Яков Семёнович). БСЭ. 04401 . ru.
4. News: ru:ЕМЕЛЬЯНОВ СТЕПАН ФЕДОРОВИЧ . memo.ru . http://www.memo.ru/history/NKVD/kto/biogr/gb160.htm . ru.
5. Book: С. В Степашин, В. П Ямпольский, Федеральная служба контрразведки РФ. Академия. Органы государственной безопасности СССР в Великой Отечественной войне: Накануне : 1 января-21 июня 1941 г. 2. Книга и бизнес. 1995. 55. 9785809000062.