# 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 | AUCP(b) |
| 6 | Yuvelian Sumbatov-Topuridze | February 26, 1934 — July 10, 1934 | 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 | Communist Party |
| | Mikhail Rayev | January 10, 1938 - November 12, 1938 | 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 | Term in office | Party affiliation |
| People's Commissar of State Security of the Azerbaijan SSR |||||
| 1 | Stepan Yemelianov | February 26 — July 31, 1941 | Communist Party |
| | Stepan Yemelianov | May 7, 1943 — January 1947 | 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

| # | 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 |