Nazim Mammadiyya oglu Hajiyev
Nazim Mammadiyya oglu Hajiyev (; 3 June 1924 – 30 July 1962) was the state, public and political figure of Azerbaijan. Biography. Hajiyev was born on 3 June 1924 in Nukha (present-day Shaki), Azerbaijan SSR. After completing his secondary school in 1940, he was admitted into the Faculty of Philology of Azerbaijan University of Languages. However, shortly after the Great Patriotic War started, he left his education incomplete and returned to Nukha and worked at "Nukha Worker" newspaper. In 1941-1943 Hajiyev worked as language and literature teacher at school No.12 in Nukha and as a methodologist  at Nukha Public Education Department. He was appointed the executive secretary of the "Nukha Worker" newspaper in 1943. From 1944, Hajiyev continued his education at university and worked at the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan SSR in 1944-1947. Hajiyev was elected the secretary of Baku Komsomol Committee. In 1950, he was appointed as the instructor of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, after which he was appointed secretary of the Party Committee of the Azerbaijan Medical Institute. Delegate of the XIX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet  Union (October 5–14, 1952). Delegate of the XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (February 14–21). Nazim Hajiyev died on July 30, 1962 as a result of incorrect surgical procedures deliberately performed in January 1961. He was buried at the Alley of Honor cemetery in Baku. Political career. In the 1950s, he was one of the initiators and organizers of the resettlement of Meskhetian Turks to Azerbaijan, who were deported to Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan). In December 1960, at the Presidium of the Central Committee of Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and later in 1961 , at the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he substantiated the historical and legal belonging of Nagorno Karabakh and Nakhichevan to Azerbaijan and this contributed to their preservation within the Azerbaijan SSR. For these, he was accused of being a nationalist by Mikoyan and Suslov. He was the author of over 50 books and articles on youth, culture, education, international politics, as well as on state problems and party building. Memorial. There is a street named after Nazim Hajiyev in Baku and Shaki. During the Soviet era, Shaki's central recreational club, the  sovkhoz in the village of Incha and the secondary school in the village of Kunggut were named after him. In 2019, "Aranfilm" Creative Center released a documentary titled "The History of a Destruction" based on the life and career of Nazim Hajiyev.