Tahira Tahirova

Tahira Akbar qizi Tahirova ( Azerbaijani : Tahirə Əkbər qızı Tahirova ; born November 7, 1913 in Baýramaly , Russian Empire , today in Mary welaýaty , Turkmenistan ; † October 26, 1991 in Baku ) was a politician of the Azerbaijani Socialist Soviet Republic and was between 1959 and 1959 1983 Foreign Minister .

biography

After attending school, she studied at the Azerbaijani Industrial Institute and graduated in 1935 , making her the first Azerbaijani woman in the petroleum industry to be awarded a university degree .

In 1940 she became director of the Institute for Scientific Research ( Azərbaycan Neft Elmi-Tədqiqat İnstitutuna ) before she worked for the Central Committee (ZK) of the Azerbaijani Communist Party ( Azərbaycan Kommunist Partiyası ) in 1942, where she was responsible for the timely delivery of oil supplies to the Red Sea Army and thus to secure the fighting during the Second World War .

In 1949 she herself became a lecturer for the exploration and development of petroleum sources at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, where she herself acquired a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) in 1953 .

In 1954 she was first chairman of the council of the trade union federation and was then from 1957 to 1959 chairman of the council for science and technology at the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan SSR.

In 1957 she was appointed Foreign Minister as successor to Mahmud Aliyev , but was only able to take up this post after completing her studies at the Diplomatic Academy of the Foreign Ministry of the Soviet Union in 1959.

Initially, as Foreign Minister, she had also been Deputy Chairwoman of the Council of Ministers from 1963, before she was released from this additional task in 1968 at her own request and was solely responsible for the foreign affairs of the Soviet Republic. In her function as Foreign Minister, she was also a member of the delegations of the USSR to the General Assemblies of the United Nations and was also head of the Soviet Union's observation and peacekeeping mission during the First Gulf War between 1980 and 1983.

On November 23, 1983, Elmira Gafarova was followed by another woman as Foreign Minister of the Azerbaijani SSR.

She has received several awards for her services and in 1976 received the Order of Friendship of Nations for her special achievements in the foreign service of the Soviet Union . In addition, she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor , the Order of Lenin and the Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union .

After her death, she was on the Honor Cemetery Alley of Honor in Baku buried.

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SURNAME	Tahirova, Tahira
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tahirova, Tahira Akbar qizi (full name); Tahirova, Tahirə Əkbər qızı (Azerbaijani)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Azerbaijani politician
DATE OF BIRTH	November 7, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Baýramaly , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	October 26, 1991
Place of death	Baku