{"id":"mamed-iskenderov","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mamed-iskenderov","language":"en","name":"Mamed Iskenderov","name_en":"Mamed Iskenderov","name_ne":null,"description":"Soviet politician","headline":"Soviet politician","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Mamed Iskenderov (December 17 [O.S. December 4] 1915 – May 28, 1985) was the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic from July 10, 1959 to December 29, 1961. He was a member of the Communist Party.","summary_more":["An ethnic Kurd, he was one of the few representatives of the indigenous minorities of the Azerbaijan SSR appointed to important government posts because he was officially registered as “Azerbaijani” (since the leadership of the Azerbaijan SSR pursued a policy of forced assimilation of its indigenous peoples, including the Kurds, among other things registering members of these communities in documents as “Azerbaijanis”)."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"4 December 1915","date":"1915-12-04"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4203846#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Eyvazlı","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4846218"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4203846#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"28 May 1985","date":"1985-05-28"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4203846#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Baku","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9248"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4203846#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Soviet Union","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15180"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4203846#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4203846#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"Communist Party of the Soviet Union (since 1943)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79854","start":"1943"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4203846#P102"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Azerbaijan State Oil and Industrial University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q724207","end":"1940"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4203846#P69"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"Chairperson of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (29 December 1961 – 25 December 1969)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4399960","start":"1961-12-29","end":"1969-12-25"},{"text":"Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan SSR (10 July 1959 – 29 December 1961)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111446851","start":"1959-07-10","end":"1961-12-29"},{"text":"Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan (1954–1955)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124313750","start":"1954","end":"1955"},{"text":"First Secretary of the Baku City Committee of the Azerbaijan Communist Party (1953–1954)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134703609","start":"1953","end":"1954"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4203846#P39"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Order of Lenin","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185493"},{"text":"Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18200478"},{"text":"Jubilee Medal \"Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945\"","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q783270","date":"1965-05-07"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4203846#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamed_Iskenderov","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4203846"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Mamed Iskenderov born?","a":"Mamed Iskenderov was born on 4 December 1915 in Eyvazlı."},{"q":"What positions has Mamed Iskenderov held?","a":"Positions held by Mamed Iskenderov include: Chairperson of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1961–1969); Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan SSR (1959–1961); Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan (1954–1955); First Secretary of the Baku City Committee of the Azerbaijan Communist Party (1953–1954)."},{"q":"Where did Mamed Iskenderov study?","a":"Mamed Iskenderov was educated at Azerbaijan State Oil and Industrial University."}],"related":[{"name":"Mirza Ibrahimov","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mirza-ibrahimov"},{"name":"Elmira Gafarova","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/elmira-gafarova"},{"name":"Mir Bashir Gasimov","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mir-bashir-gasimov"},{"name":"Saftar Jafarov","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/saftar-jafarov"},{"name":"Gurban Khalilov","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gurban-khalilov"},{"name":"Ayaz Mutallibov","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ayaz-mutallibov"},{"name":"Mir Jafar Baghirov","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mir-jafar-baghirov"},{"name":"Vali Akhundov","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/vali-akhundov"},{"name":"Mir Teymur Yagubov","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mir-teymur-yagubov"},{"name":"Kamran Baghirov","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/kamran-baghirov"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":null,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Mamed Iskenderov","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamed_Iskenderov","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q4203846","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4203846","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Mamed Iskenderov, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0).","cite":"\"Mamed Iskenderov\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/mamed-iskenderov. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T13:59:50Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/mamed-iskenderov","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/mamed-iskenderov","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/mamed-iskenderov?lang=ne"}}