Ibrahim Mammadov

Ibrahim Ismayil oglu Mammadov (Azerbaijani: İbrahim İsmayıl oğlu Məmmədov) (20 December 1958 – 16 February 1994) - National Hero of Azerbaijan was born on December 20, 1958, in the Nakhchivan city of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan.

Ibrahim Mammadov
Ibrahim Ismayil oglu Mammadov
Born(1958-12-20)December 20, 1958
Nakhchivan, Nakhchivan AR, Azerbaijan SSR
DiedFebruary 16, 1994(1994-02-16) (aged 35)
Kalbajar, Kalbajar District, Azerbaijan
Burial placeNakhchivan, Azerbaijan
NationalityAzerbaijani
OccupationMilitary
AwardsNational Hero of Azerbaijan

Life

He finished secondary school # 3 in Nakhchivan city in 1976. He was called for military service after working for a Water Construction Company for a year. After being demobilized from the army in 1979, he went to Moscow and started working at a Car Factory. While working and living in Moscow, he entered the Correspondence Department of the History Faculty of Baku State University in 1988 and graduated from in 1993. He took also a very active part in the meetings conducted by Azerbaijani people in Moscow in order to show the truth about Black January to the world.[1]

In Battles

Ibrahim Mammadov returned to Baku along with his family after Khojaly tragedy. He was enlisted in one of the Self Defense Battalions that consisted of volunteers. After Voluntary Battalions were cancelled, he continued his fight against the enemy as a company commander within the National Army in 1993. He was later sent to Kalbajar along with his battalion. On the 16th of February, 1994, in the battle for the strategically important height of Kalbajar region he was shot by a sniper in the last moment and died in the battlefield.[2]

Family

He was married and had two children.

Awards

He was posthumously awarded the title of the National Hero of Azerbaijan by the decree # 156 of the president of Azerbaijan Republic on the 20th of June, 1994.

He was buried in the Alley of Martyrs in Nakhcivan city.

References
  1. Hər kəsə qismət olmayan ömür
  2. "Naxçıvan Ensiklopediyası" - 2 cilddə, II cild, Naxçıvan, 2005, səh 30. Archived 2016-07-01 at the Wayback Machine ISBN 5-8066-1468-9
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