Azerbaijan
Part of Kingdom of Media
Part of Persia
Part of Greek Macedon
Part of Armenia
Kingdom of Caucausian Albania
Annexed by Roman Empire
Part of Persia
Kingdom of Caucauisan Albania
Principality of Girdyaman
799 - 1747 Emirate of Shivan
1516 Part of Ottoman Empire
1618 Part of Persia
10 Jul 1723 - 10 Mar 1735 Baku annexed by Russia
06 Oct 1806 Baku annexed by Russia
12 Oct 1813 Azerbaijan north of the Aras river ceded to Russia by Persia
22 Feb 1828 Nakhichevan annexed by Russia
22 Apr - 28 May 1918 Part of the Democratic Federative Republic of Transcaucasia
28 May 1918 - 27 Apr 1920 Azerbaijani Democratic Republic
27 Apr 1920 Soviet occupation
28 Apr 1920 Azerbaijan Socialist Republic
12 Mar 1922 - 05 Dec 1936 Part of Transcaucasian S.F.S.R (Part of the U.S.S.R).
05 Dec 1936 Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic
23 Sep 1989 State sovereignty declared
05 Feb 1991 Azerbaijani Republic
30 Aug 1991 Independence declared
18 Oct 1991 Declaration of independence adopted by the Supreme Soviet
29 Dec 1991 Referendum supports independence by 95%
06 Jan 1992 Nagorno-Karabakh declares independence (not recognised)
Kingdoms of Albania and Girdyaman
Kings of Caucausian Albania
..-.. Alpan
60-47 Oroyz
47-25 Zober
230-260 Vachagan I
260-313 Vache I
313-371 Urnayr
Vachagan II
Yargavan I
Sato
Asay
400-451 Yesvagan I
451-463 Vache II
487-510 Vachagan III
Kings of Girdyaman
510-534 Mihran
534-555 Armael
555-577 Vard
577-598 Vardan I
598-608 Varazman
608-628 Varaz Grigori
628-642 Varaz Peroz
642-680 Jevanshir
680-699 Varaz Tiridat I
(1st Time))
699-704 Sheraye
704-705 Varaz Tiridat I
(2nd Time)
705-730 Vardan II
730-760 Gagik
760-790 Nerseh
790-810 Stefan I
810-821 Varaz Tiridat II
821-822 Stefan II
822-830 Artnerseh ibn Sakhl
830-852 Iasiah
Azerbaijani Democratic Republic
Chairman of the National Council
28 May - 17 Jun 1918 Mahmmad Amin Axund Haci Molla Alakbar
oglu Resulzade .......................... 1884-1955
Chairman of the Provisional Government
17 Jun - 16 Nov 1918 Fatheli-xan İsgandar Xoy ................. 1876-1920
Chairman of the National Council
16 Nov - 07 Dec 1918 Mahmmad Amin Axund Haci Molla Alakbar
oglu Resulzade (2nd Time)
Chairman of the Parliament
07 Dec 1918 - 27 Apr 1920 Alimardan Alakbar oglu Topçupaþ .......... 1862-1934
Prime Ministers
28 May 1918 - 14 Apr 1919 Fateli-xan İsgandar oglu Xoy ............. s.a
14 Apr 1919 - 01 Apr 1920 Nasib Bey Yusifbeli ...................... 1881-1920
01 Apr - 28 Apr 1920 Mammad Hasan Hadzinski ................... 1875-1931
Azerbaijani Republic
Presidents
19 May 1990 - 06 Mar 1992 Ayaz Niyazi oglu Mütallib (1st Time) ..... 1938-2022
06 Mar - 14 May 1992 Yaqub Cavad ogly Mammad .................. 1941-
(1st Time, acting)
14 May - 16 May 1992 Ayaz Niyazi oglu Mütallib (2nd Time)
16 May - 18 May 1992 Yaqub Cavad ogly Mammad
(2nd Time, acting)
18 May - 16 Jun 1992 Isa Yunis oglu Qambar .................... 1957-
(acting)
16 Jun 1992 - 01 Sep 1993 Abülfez Qadyrqulu oglu Elçibey ........... 1938-2000
01 Sep 1993 - 31 Oct 2003 Heydar Ali Reza oglu Ali ................. 1923-2003
31 Oct 2003 - İlham Heydar oglu Ali .................... 1961-
Prime Ministers
07 Feb 1991 - 04 Apr 1992 Hasan Aziz oglu Hasan .................... 1940-
16 May 1992 - 26 Jan 1993 Rahim Ali Hüseyn oglu Hüseyn ............. 1936-
26 Jan - 28 Apr 1993 Ali Ahmed oglu Masim ..................... 1952-
(acting)
28 Apr - 30 Jun 1993 Pankha Chodar oglu Hüseyn ................ 1957-
30 Jun 1993 - 07 Oct 1994 Surat Davud oglu Hüseyn .................. 1959-
07 Oct 1994 - 20 Jul 1996 Fuad Khalid oglu Guli .................... 1941-
(acting)
20 Jul 1996 - 04 Aug 2003 Artur Tair oglu Rasizade ................. 1935-
(1st Time)
04 Aug - 04 Nov 2003 İlham Heydar oglu Ali .................... s.a
04 Nov 2003 - 21 Apr 2018 Artur Tair oglu Rasizade ................. s.a
(2nd Time)
21 Apr 2018 - 08 Oct 2019 Novrus Ismail oglu Mamed ................. 1947-
08 Oct 2019 - Ali Idyat oglu Ased ...................... 1956-
Naxçivan (Nakhichevan)
1539 BC Part of Amenia
900-612 To Uratu
612-550 to Media
550-300 To Persia
330-451 To Armenia
451-653 To Persia
653-885 To Caliphate
885-1020 to Armenia
15.. To Persia
1747 - 1834 Khanate of Nakhchivan
22 Feb 1828 Annexed by Russian Empire
1867 - 1917 Part of the Yerivan oblast
04 Jun 1918 Part of Azerbaijan Azerbaijan
26 Jan 1919 Aradayan Republic
May 1919 - 06 Jun 1919 Armenian occupation
1920 Ottoman occupation
28 Jul 1920 Nakhichevan S.S.R
02 Dec 1920 - 09 Feb 1924 Part of Armenian S.S.R
27 Feb 1923 Nakhichevan Autonomous oblast
09 Feb 1924 Part of Azerbaijan S.S.R
05 Dec 1936 Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
18 Jan 1990 Armenia occupied the Karki/Tigranashen exclav
20 Jan 1990 Independence declared from the U.S.S.R but not
Azerbaijan
19 Nov 1990 Part of Azerbaijan
Responsible Secretaries of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Oblast Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaizhan
1921 Bagatur Kasum oglu Velbek ................ 1894-1938
1921 - 1924
1924 Yusif Pasha oglu Tairov .................. 1893-1938
1925 - 1926 Aleskar Abbas oglu Shakhbaz .............. 1898-1973
1926 - 1929 Ibrahim Tagi oglu Tagi ................... 1894-1937
1929 Aga Verdi Khadzhi Yarali oglu Rahim ...... 1895-1937
First Secretaries of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Oblast Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaizhan
1931 - 1933 Bagatur Kasum oglu Velbek ................ s.a
1933 - 1934 Ali Kara Yahya oglu Mammad ............... 1902-1937
1934 - 1936 Mehdi Adıgözəl oğlu Mehdi ................ 1895-1937
1936 - 1937 Hasan Ali Pasha oglu Rakhman ............. 1900-1938
1937 Sultan Teymur oglu Sultan ................ 1905-1938
1938 - 1940 Kazim Mirheidar oglu Ismail .............. 1905-1981
1940 - 1948 Hüseyn Hümbat oglu Najaf
1948 - 1952 Yusif Niftali aga oglu Yusif ............. 1906-1995
1952 - 1956 Ismail Nasrulla oglu Asker ............... 1914-2014
1956 - 1961 Khurshud Bayrum Kulu oglu Mamed .......... 1906-19..
10 Mar 1961 - Apr 1970 Haci Aga Khalil oglu Ibrahim ............. 1923-1992
Apr 1970 - 28 Dec 1975 Aslan Ağahüseyn oğlu Hüseyn .............. 1916-1991
28 Dec 1975 - 06 Dec 1983 Kamran Nabil oglu Rahim .................. 1928-2007
06 Dec 1983 - Nov 1988 Nuradin Elyaz Müstafa .................... 1942-
Nov 1988 - 20 Jan 1990 Heydar Isa oglu Isa ...................... 1936-1999
First Secretaries of the Nakhichevan Republic Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaizhan
20 Jan 1990 - Apr 1991 Afetdin Calil oglu Calil ................. 1946-1994
Apr - 14 Sep 1991 Akper Fattakh oglu Ali ................... 1950-
Khans
1747 - 1764 Heydar Quli Khan
1764 - 1765 Haji Khan
1765 - 1770 Rahim Khan
1770 - 1773 Ali Quli Khan
1773 - 1781 Veli Quli Khan
1781 - 1783 Abbas Quli Khan (1st Time)
1783 - 1785 Jafar Quli Khan
1785 - 1787 Süküreli Khan
1787 - 1796 Kalb Ali Khan ibn Heydaroglu (1st Time)
1797 - 1801 Abbas Quli Khan (2nd Time)
1801 - 1804 Kalb Ali Khan ibn Heydaroglu (2nd Time)
1804 Abbas Quli Khan (3rd Time)
1804 - 1813 Kalb Ali Khan ibn Heydaroglu (3rd Time)
1813 - 1816 Karim Khan Kangarli (1st Time)
1816 - 1820 Kalb Ali Khan ibn Heydaroglu (4th Time)
1820 Nezereli Khan
1820 - 1827 Karim Khan Kangarli (2nd Time)
1823 - 1828 Ehsan Khan
1828 - 1834 Karim Khan Kangarli (3rd Time)
Presidents
Oct 1918 - Jun 1919 Dzhafar Quli-Khan
Jun 1919 - 1920 .....
Chairman of the Executive Committee
28 Apr 1920 - Nov 1921 Müstafa Baktash
Nov 1921 - Mar 1922 Beybut Aga Shahtahtinskii ................ 1881-1924
Mar 1922 - 1923 Bagatur Kasum oglu Velibek (1st Time) .... s.a
1923 - 1928 Baba Babayev
1930 - 1931 Bagatur Kasum oglu Velibek (2nd Time)
1933 - 1934 Halil Agamir oglu Agamir ................. 1897-1940
1934 - 1936 Aga Verdi Haci Yarali oglu Rahim
1937 Saftar Mamed oglu Cafar .................. 1900-1961
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
1937 - 1942 Mamed Ali oglu Rahim
Oct 1943 - 1952 Cabrail Ibrahim oglu Mamed ............... 1910-1976
Sep 1952 - Sep 1963 Hüseyn Kurban oglu Mamed ................. 1900-1970
Sep 1963 - Sep 1990 Sukina Abas-qyzy Aliyeva ................. 1925-2010
Sep 1990 - 05 Sep 1991 Afetdin Calil oglu Calil ................. s.a
Chairmen of the Parliment
05 Sep 1991 - 23 Jun 1993 Heydar Ali oglu Ali ...................... 1923-2003
01 Jul 1993 - 04 Apr 1994 Vasif Yusif oglu Talib (1st Time) ........ 1960-
04 Nov 1994 - 16 Dec 1995 Natiq Hasan .............................. 1944-2020
16 Dec 1995 - 22 Dec 2022 Vasif Yusif oglu Talib (2nd Time)
22 Dec 2022 - Azer Yadulla oglu Zeynal ................. 1970-
Chairmen of the Council of Ministers
28 Apr 1920 - Jan 1922 Ali Qadim
Jan - 03 May 1922 Beybut Aga Shahtahtinskii ................ s.a
1922 - 1923 Teymur Makhmud oglu Ali .................. 1896-1938
1924 - 1925 A. Ahundo
May 1925 - 1929 Hamid Hasan oglu Sultan .................. 1889-1937
1929 - 1932 Teimur Magomet oglu Ali
1932 - Jul 1938 .....
Jul 1938 - 1942 Balamat Yuz Akhmed oglu Balamat (1st Time)
1943 Isak Musa oglu Hyülmamed
1944 - 1946 Adi Hüzal Halil oglu Hüzal ............... 1907-19..
1947 - 1950 Balamat Yuz Akhmed oglu Balamat (2nd Time)
1950 - 1953 I. Hülmamed
1953 - 1955 Neimet Hüseyn Novruz ..................... 1908-19..
1955 - 1959 Raqim Karam oglu Raqim ................... 1920-2000
1959 - Oct 1964 Mammad Hasan oglu Asker .................. 1918-1988
1964 - Feb 1970 Ramazan Akper oglu Ismail ................ 1928-
Feb 1970 - Jan 1979 Yusif Mustafa oglu Nabil ................. 1926-1980
Jan 1979 - May 1983 Imram Azim oglu Mekhty ................... 1936-
May 1983 - Mar 1988 Zulfi Salekh oglu Hadci .................. 1935-1991
Mar - Nov 1988 Heidar Isa oglu Isa ...................... s.a
Nov 1988 - 1989 Sukina Abbas qyzy Aliyeva ................ s.a
1989 - Jan 1990 Afetdin Calil oglu Calil ................. s.a
Jan 1990 - Sep 1991 Mir Ismail Mir Ali oglu Ali .............. 1941-
Prime Ministers
1991 - 1993 Bedcan Ibrahim oglu Farzili
1993 - 2000 Shamsaddin Hüseyngulu oglu Hanbaba ....... 1939-
2000 - 23 May 2020 Alovsat Hazanfar oglu Bakhshi ............ 1956-
23 May 2020 - Sabuhi Hidayat oglu Mammad ............... 1969-
Baku
1721 - 1806 Baku Khanate
06 Oct 1806 To Russian Empire
02 Nov 1917 - 31 Jul 1918 Baku Soviet Commune
22 Apr - 26 May 1918 Part of Transcaucausia
17 Jul - 15 Sep 1918 British occupation
01 Aug 1918 Central Caspian Directorate replaces the Commune
15 Sep - 18 Oct 1918 Ottoman occupation
27 Apr 1920 Soviet occupation, incorporated into Azerbaizhan S.S.R
03 Apr 1952 - 23 Apr 1953 Azerbaizhan S.S.R divided into two oblasts
Baki (Baku) and Kanca (Ganja)
First Secretary of the oblast Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaizhan
03 Apr 1952 - 23 Apr 1953 Mir Teymur Mir oğlu Ələkbər Yaqub ........ s.a
- Maqoma Cəmaləddin Abdul-Müslüm ........... 1910-1977
(Second Secretary)
Khans
1721 - 1728 Dargah Quli Khan
1747 - 1768 Mirza Mohammad I Khan
1768 - 1770 Fath Ali Khan
1770 - 1772 Abd Allah Beg
1772 - 1783 Malik Mohammad Khan
1783 - 1791 Mirza Mohammad II Khan
1791 - 1792 Mohammad Quli Khan
1792 - 06 Oct 1806 Hüseyn Quli Khan
Governors
1844 - 1850 Baron Aleksandr Evstafevich Wrangel
1856 - 1859 Konstantin Davydovich Tarkhan-Mouravov
1859 - 1866 Mikhail Petrovich Kolyubakin
1867 - 1875 Dmitry Semyonovich Starosel'sky
1875 - 1882 Valery Mikhailovich Rosen
24 Mar 1882 - 08 Jan 1888 Baron Justin Kazimirovich Hubsch von Grostahl
21 Jan 1888 - 01 Jun 1899 Vladimir Petrovich Rorre
18 Jun 1899 - 27 Feb 1904 Dmitry Aleksandrovich Odintsov
27 Feb 1904 - 01 May 1905 Prince Mikhail Aleksandrovich Nakashidze
11 Nov 1905 - 1915 Vladimir Vladimirovich Alyshevsky
1915 - 1917 Lev Vladimirovich Potylov
Commissar for the Baku Governorate
1917 Pyotr Thyodorovich Ilyushkin
Governors
05 Feb - 25 Aug 1919 Rashid bey Akhybdzade
25 Aug 1919 - 28 Apr 1920 Amir bey Narimanbeg
Chairman of the Executive of the oblast Committee
03 Apr 1952 - 23 Apr 1953 Hasan Ali oglu Seid
Baku (City)
28 Oct 1906 City of Baku and Absheron peninsular within Baku
23 Feb 1912 Separated from Baku Governorate
13 Nov 1917 Baku Governorate of Soviet Deputies (in opposition)
25 Apr - 31 Jul 1918 Baku Soviet Commune
01 Aug - 15 Sep 1918 Central Caspian Provisional Dictatorship (pro-British)
(anti-Soviet and anti-Azerbaijan Democratic Republic)
15 Sep - 14 Nov 1918 Ottoman occupation
17 Nov 1918 - 23 Aug 1919 Baku garrisoned by British forces
23 Aug 1919 Part of Azerbaijan
28 Apr 1920 Soviet occupation (part of the Azerbaizhan S.S.R)
03 Apr 1952 - 23 Apr 1953 Baku city economically separate from Baku oblast
First Secretary of the Baku City Committee of the Azerbaizhan Communist Party
03 Apr 1952 - 23 Apr 1953 Rzakuliyev
Mayors
24 Dec 1906 - 1907 Maj-Gen. Mikhail Evgeniyevich Kanevsky
(acting)
20 Feb 1908 - 1909 Lt-Gen. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Folbaum ... 1866-1916
(acting)
1908 - 1909 Col. Pyotr Ivanovich Shubinsky
(acting)
22 Jan 1909 - 08 Mar 1916 Lt-Col. Pyotr Ivanovich Martynov
1916 - 08 Mar 1917 Georgy Samuilovich Kovalev
(acting)
08 Mar - Nov 1917 Pyotr Thyodorovich Ilyushkin
(acting)
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Baku Soviet of Deputies
02 Nov - 25 Dec 1917 Stepan Georgiyevich Shaumyan ............. 1878-1918
Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee
25 Dec 1917 - 13 Jan 1918 Ivan Aleksyevich Sukhartsev
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Baku Soviet of Deputies
13 Jan - 25 Apr 1918 Prokopy Aprasionovich Dzhaparizhe ........ 1880-1918
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissioners
25 Apr - 31 Jul 1918 Stepan Georgiyevich Shaumyan ............. s.a
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee
01 Aug - 15 Sep 1918 Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sadovsky
Mayor
29 Apr 1919 - 28 Apr 1920 Guda Ali ogly Gudiev ..................... 1880-1920
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Baku City Council
03 Apr 1952 - 23 Apr 1953 Rustam Hadziali oglu Ismail .............. 1909-1972
Commander of the Allied (British) Forces
06 Aug - 15 Sep 1918 Lionel Charles Dunsterville .............. 1865-1946
Ganca (Elizavetpol)
1952 - 1953 Ganca (Ganzha) oblast
First Secretary of the Ganca Regional Committee of the Communist Party
03 Apr 1952 - 23 Apr 1953 Imam Dashdemir oglu Mustafa .............. 1904-1970
Khans
1747 - 1761 Shah Wadi Khan
1761 - 1781 Mohammad Hasan Khan
1781 - 1784 Ibrahim Khalil Khan
1784 - 1786 Hajji Beg
1786 - 03 Jan 1804 al-Jawad Khan
Governors
09 Dec 1867 - 1876 Fokion Bulatov
1880 - 1897 Alexander Nakashidze
1897 - 1900 Ivan Kireyev
1900 - 1905 Nikolai Lutsau
1905 Yegor Baranovsky
1905 - 1907 Alexander Kalachev
1907 - 1908 Samkalov
1908 - 1916 Georgy Kovalev
1916 - 15 Mar 1917 Mikhail Poyarkov
Commissar for the Yelizabetpol Governorat
1917 - 1918 Ismail Khan Ziyadkhan
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Ganca Regional Council
03 Apr 1952 - 23 Apr 1953 Sadykh Hadciali oglu Ismail .............. 1914-1975