Ismat Gayibov
Azerbaijani politician
Intro | Azerbaijani politician | |
Places | Azerbaijan | |
was | Politician | |
Work field | Politics | |
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Birth | 8 October 1942, Ganja | |
Death | 20 November 1991 (aged 49 years) |
Ismat Ismayil oglu Gayibov (Azerbaijani: Ismət Qayıbov Ismail oğlu) (born in 1942 in Ganja, Azerbaijan) was the Public Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan.
He was killed in a helicopter which was shot down by Armenian forces near the Karakend village of Khojavend district in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan. There were no survivors of the crash. However, Gayibov's body was not found at the site of the crash. It was alleged that he was taken hostage by Armenians and went missing.
Gayibov's official burial was done at the Avenue of the Honored Ones Cemetery in Baku. A stadium in Baku, an oil tanker, many schools and streets were named after him.