Abulfaz Elchibey, Azerbaijani politician, 1st democratically elected Azerbaijani President (died 2000)

Abulfaz Elchibey

President of Azerbaijan from 1992 to 1993

Abulfaz Gadirgulu oghlu Aliyev, commonly known as Abulfaz Elchibey, was a Pan-Turkist Azerbaijani nationalist, politician and Soviet dissident who was the first and only democratically elected President in post-Soviet Azerbaijan. He was the leader of the Azerbaijani Popular…