Mir Jafar Baghirov

Mir Jafar Baghirov
Mir Cəfər Bağırov
Baghirov in 1948
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan
In office
10 December 1933  18 April 1953
Preceded byRuben Rubenov
Succeeded byMir Teymur Yaqubov
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan SSR
In office
18 April 1953  17 August 1953
Preceded byTeymur Guliyev
Succeeded byTeymur Guliyev
Candidate member of the 19th Presidium
In office
6 March 1953  7 July 1953
Personal details
Born(1896-09-17)17 September 1896
Quba, Baku Governorate, Russian Empire
Died7 May 1956(1956-05-07) (aged 59)
Siberia, Russian SSR, USSR
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1918–1953)
ChildrenMirza Baghirov, Jahangir Baghirov, Jen Baghirov
Occupationteacher

Mir Jafar Abbas oghlu Baghirov (Azerbaijani: Мир Ҹәфәр Аббас оғлу Бағыров, romanized: Mir Cəfər Abbas oğlu Bağırov, Russian: Мир Джафар Аббасович Багиров; 17 September 1896 – 7 May 1956) was the communist leader of the Azerbaijan SSR from 1933 to 1953, under the Soviet leadership of Joseph Stalin.