Heydar Aliyev's cult of personality
Heydar Aliyev's cult of personality, also known as Heydarism, became a significant part of Azerbaijani politics and society after he came to power in 1993 and continuing after his death in 2003, when his son Ilham Aliyev succeeded him. Aliyev, a former Soviet politburo member and the leader of Soviet Azerbaijan from 1969 to 1987, became the President of Azerbaijan in 1993. He then began to carefully design an autocratic system, with heavy reliance on family and clan members, oil revenues and patronage.
2005 Azeri post stamp depicting Aliyev
The Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku
Heydar Aliyev Park in Tbilisi, Georgia
2001
Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev was an Azerbaijani politician who was a Soviet party boss in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic from 1969 to 1982, and the third president of Azerbaijan from October 1993 to October 2003.
Official portrait
Heydar Aliyev with his family in 1920s
Aliyev in his KGB uniform
Aliyev during his visit to a state collective farm in 70s