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Mahmud Aliyev
Mahmud Əliyev
Azerbaijani (Soviet) politician

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Azerbaijan SSR
In office 2 September 1944 – 24 September 1958
Preceded by	Mirza Davud Huseynov (1921)
Succeeded by	Tahira Tahirova
Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union
In office 22 November 1943 – 3 September 1944
Minister	Vyacheslav Molotov

Personal details
Born	(1908-02-22)22 February 1908 Shamakhi, Baku Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	24 September 1958(1958-09-24) (aged 50) Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR

Mahmud Ismayil oghlu Aliyev (Azerbaijani: Mahmud İsmayıl oğlu Əliyev; 22 February 1908 – 24 September 1958) was an Azerbaijani politician and diplomat who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Azerbaijan SSR from 1944 to 1958.

Early life

Aliyev was born on 22 February 1908, in Shamakhi, Azerbaijan. In 1926, he completed his secondary education in Baku, and in 1931 he graduated from Azerbaijan State Medical University with a degree in General Therapy. In 1931–1936, he was director of a clinic in Kalbajar and Jabrayil rayons of Azerbaijan and head surgeon of a regional hospital. In 1938 he was admitted to the ranks of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Starting from 1937 through 1943, Aliyev headed the Department of Medical Education of Commissariat of People's Health, was director of Azerbaijan State Medical University and director of Science and Preschool Department of Central Committee of Azerbaijan Communist Party. In 1943, Mahmud Aliyev was the Deputy Commissar of Foreign Affairs of Soviet Union and in 1944, he was appointed the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan SSR. While in the office of foreign service, he also worked as the Rector of Doctors' Qualification Institute of Azerbaijan SSR in 1950–1953. Aliyev also served as deputy in the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan SSR.

In 1943, Aliyev was awarded the title of Merited Doctor of Azerbaijan SSR. He has also been awarded with Order of the Red Banner of Labour and other medals.

Aliyev died on 24 September 1958. He was laid to rest at the Alley of Honor.

Before 28 March 1946, the title of the office was People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs.

v t e Ministers of foreign affairs of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic	Mammad Hasan Hajinski Alimardan Topchubashov Fatali Khan Khoyski Mammad Yusif Jafarov Fatali Khan Khoyski
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic	Nariman Narimanov Mirza Davud Huseynov Mahmud Aliyev Tahira Tahirova Elmira Gafarova Huseynaga Sadigov
Republic of Azerbaijan	Huseynagha Sadigov Tofig Gasimov Hasan Hasanov Tofig Zulfugarov Vilayat Guliyev Elmar Mammadyarov Jeyhun Bayramov
* There was no MFA body between 1921–1944