Azerbaijan Communist Party (1920)

For other uses, see Azerbaijan Communist Party (disambiguation).

Azerbaijan Communist Party Azərbaycan Kommunist Partiyası Азәрбајҹан Коммунист Партијасы
Founded	20 February 1920 (1920-02-20)
Dissolved	14 September 1991 (1991-09-14)
Merger of	Ahrar Party Baku Bolsheviks Communist Party of Persia Muslim Social Democratic Party
Succeeded by	Azerbaijan Communist Party (1993)
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
National affiliation	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Colors	Red
Party flag
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The Azerbaijan Communist Party (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Kommunist Partiyası; Russian: Коммунистическая партия Азербайджана, romanized: Kommunisticheskaya partiya Azerbaydzhana) was the ruling political party in the Azerbaijan SSR, making it effectively a branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It was formed on 20 February 1920, when the Muslim Social Democratic Party, Communist Party of Persia, Ahrar Party and the Baku Bolsheviks joined together to establish the Communist Party of Azerbaijan. On 1 April of the same year, the Fifth Cabinet of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic gave its resignations and all the power to the Communist Party of Azerbaijan. The party ruled the Azerbaijan SSR until 14 September 1991 when it was formally disbanded. Nevertheless, former leaders and members of the communists continued to play a role in the family- and patronage-based political system. The Communist Party of Azerbaijan won the first multi-party elections in Azerbaijan that took place on 30 September and 14 October 1990 for the Supreme Soviet, obtaining 280 out of 360 seats.

First secretaries of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan

No.	Name	Took office	Left office
1	Mirza Davud Huseynov	12 February 1920	23 October 1920
2	Grigory Kaminsky	23 October 1920	July 1921
3	Sergey Kirov	July 1921	January 1926
4	Levon Mirzoyan	January 1926	August 1929
5	Nikolay Gikalo	August 1929	June 1930
6	Vladimir Polonsky	June 1930	November 1933
7	Ruben Rubenov (Mkrtchyan)	1 January 1933	12 December 1933
8	Mir Jafar Baghirov	November 1933	July 1953
9	Mir Teymur Yaqubov	July 1953	February 1954
10	Imam Mustafayev	7 February 1954	12 June 1959
11	Veli Akhundov	11 July 1959	14 July 1969
12	Heydar Aliyev	14 July 1969	3 December 1982
13	Kamran Baghirov	3 December 1982	21 May 1988
14	Abdulrahman Vezirov	21 May 1988	20 January 1990
15	Ayaz Mütallibov	24 January 1990	14 September 1991
Source: World Statesman - Azerbaijan

Notable people

• Valery Grigoryan, former party chairman