Sahtaxti
Encyclopedia
Şahtaxtı is a village and municipality in the Kangarli Rayon of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan
. It has a population of 3,092.
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...
. It has a population of 3,092.
Notable natives
- Behbud Agha Shakhtakhtinski — People's Commissar of Justice of Azerbaijan SSRMinistry of Justice (Azerbaijan)The Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan is a governmental agency within the Cabinet of Azerbaijan in charge of regulation of the justice system, overseeing the public prosecutor, maintaining the legal system and public order and instituting law reforms....
, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Nakhichevan SSR (1922). - Huseyin Ibrahimov — writer, People's Writer of Azerbaijan (1998), Chairman of the Supreme Council of Nakhichevan ASSR (1963-71), Minister of Culture of the Nakhichevan ASSR (1970-76).
- Zarifa AliyevaZarifa AliyevaZarifa Aziz gizi Aliyeva – eminent Azerbaijani ophthalmologist, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, professor .Zarifa Aliyeva is the author of 14 monographs and hundreds of research papers, 12 rationalization proposals...
— ophthalmologist, academician of the Azerbaijan National Academy of SciencesAzerbaijan National Academy of SciencesAzerbaijan National Academy of Sciences , located in Baku, is the main state research organization in Azerbaijan...
, professor; daughter of the People's Commissar of Health of Azerbaijan SSRMinistry of Healthcare (Azerbaijan)The Ministry of Healthcare of Azerbaijan Republic, also known as Ministry of Health of Azerbaijan Republic is a governmental agency within the Cabinet of Azerbaijan in charge of regulating the healthcare system in Azerbaijan Republic...
, First Secretary of the Dagestan Regional Committee of the Communist Party, Aziz AliyevAziz AliyevDr. Aziz Mammad Karim oglu Aliyev , Ph.D., was an Azerbaijani, Dagestani and Soviet politician, scientist, and member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR...
, wife of the President of Azerbaijan Heydar AliyevHeydar AliyevHeydar Alirza oglu Aliyev , also spelled as Heidar Aliev, Geidar Aliev, Haydar Aliyev, Geydar Aliyev was the third President of Azerbaijan for the New Azerbaijan Party from June 1993 to October 2003, when his son Ilham Aliyev succeeded him.From 1969 till 1982, Aliyev was also the leader of Soviet...
and the mother of the President of AzerbaijanPresident of AzerbaijanThe country of Azerbaijan is a presidential republic, with the President of Azerbaijan as the head of state, and the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan as head of government...
Ilham AliyevIlham AliyevIlham Heydar oglu Aliyev is the President of Azerbaijan since 2003. He also functions as the Chairman of the New Azerbaijan Party and the head of the National Olympic Committee...
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