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

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

Heads of the Azerbaijani Cheka, GPU and OGPU

#	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

#	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

(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

#	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	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	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

^ "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

[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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