Hasan Aliyev

Hasan Alirza oghlu Aliyev (; 15 December 1907 — 2 February 1993) was an Azerbaijani scientist, socio-political figure, Honoured Scientist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1974), Secretary of the Party Committee of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR (1950), First Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Azerbaijan Republic, Secretary of the Central Committee of Azerbaijan (1952), Academic Secretary of ANAS (1952– 1957), member of the Baku Council of Labor Deputies (1953–1956), full member of the Royal Society of Bibliographers of England, director of the Institute of Geography named after academician Hasan Aliyev of ANAS (1968–1987). Biography Hasan Aliyev was born on 15 December 1907 in Jomardlu village. His family was deported to Nakhchivan after the March genocide. After coming to Nakhchivan, he worked in various jobs in 1917-1924. He entered the village evening school in 1925. In 1930 H.Aliyev graduated from Nakhchivan Agricultural College. In 1927 during his studies at the technical school he was an employee of the department of agricultural pest control of the Land Commissariat of the Nakhchivan ASSR. In 1929, he worked as an instructor in Nakhchivan Cotton Union and Ganja branch of Azerbaijan Cotton Union. Hasan Aliyev studied at Azerbaijan Agricultural Institute in 1930-1932. In addition to studying at the institute, he worked as a teacher at Qarayeri state farm school in Ganja. In 1932 he entered the graduate school of Azerbaijan Scientific-Research Cotton Institute and graduated in 1934.In 1934 he was appointed director of Shirvan Zone-Experimental Station located in the centre of Ujar district of Azerbaijan Agricultural Cotton Institute. After working there for two years, he was hired as a researcher at the Department of Soil Science of Azerbaijan branch of the former USSR Academy of Sciences, and at the same time served as scientific secretary of that department (1935–1941). In 1935, he became a member of All-Union Society of Soil Science. In addition to research, he began teaching at universities. In 1939 he became a member of the former All-Union Geographical Society. In 1941 he volunteered for the army. He returned to Baku in 1943 after being seriously wounded in a battle with the Germans in North Caucasus. After a long treatment, he re-entered the Azerbaijan branch of the Academy of Sciences of the former USSR and in the same year (1943) began to lead the Department of Geography.