• Source: Fakhraddin Shahbazov

Fəxrəddin Şahbazov (Azerbaijani: Fəxrəddin İbrahim oğlu Şahbazov) (22 January 1950, Baku, Azerbaijan – 20 November 1991, Khojavend, Azerbaijan) was a National Hero of Azerbaijan, and warrior during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.




Early life and education


Shahbazov was born on 22 January 1950 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR. In 1967, he completed his secondary education at the Secondary School No. 20 in Baku. From 1969 through 1971, Shahbazov served in the Soviet Armed Forces. In 1972, he started to work at the Television and Radio Broadcasting Company of Azerbaijan.




= Personal life

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Shahbazov was married and had two children.




Nagorno Karabakh War


The forceful expulsion of Azerbaijanis from Upper Karabakh and nowadays Armenia by Armenians since 1988 also worried Fakhraddin Shahbazov. He volunteered for the front-line, prepared reports from battlefields and broadcast them in the country and abroad. Despite repeated encounters with dangerous situations, he continued to go to the front-line as a reporter.
On November 20, government officials and a number of other individuals departed for Khojavend on a Mi-8 helicopter to investigate these events. Near the village of Garakend in Khojavend, Armenians attacked the helicopter with heavy machine-gun fire.




Memorial and legacy


By Decree of the President of Azerbaijan No. 344 dated December 4, 1992, Fakhraddin Shahbazov was posthumously awarded the title of "National Hero of Azerbaijan". He was buried in the Martyrs' Lane in Baku. One of the streets in the Rasulzade settlement is named after him.




See also


First Nagorno-Karabakh War
National Hero of Azerbaijan
1991 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown




References






Further reading


Vugar Asgarov. Azərbaycanın Milli Qəhrəmanları (Yenidən işlənmiş II nəşr). Bakı: "Dərələyəz-M", 2010, səh. 265.

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Fakhraddin Shahbazov
• Fakhraddin Musayev
• Surat Huseynov
• Albert Agarunov
• 1991 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown
• Fakhraddin Najafov
• Mubariz Ibrahimov
• 1991 in the Soviet Union and Russia
• Chingiz Mustafayev (journalist)
• Deaths in November 1991