Committee for State Security of the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic


Committee for State Security of the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic or KGB of the AzSSR was the security agency of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, being the local branch of Committee for State Security of the USSR. Its headquarters was on Narimanov Avenue in Baku, capital of the Azerbaijan SSR. The KGB in Azerbaijan was founded in 1954 and would eventually be succeeded by the State Security Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2015.
Chairmen of the KGB of AzSSR were:
#NamePhotoTerm in officeParty affiliation
1
Anatoliy Guskov
1954 — 1956
Communist Party
2
Fyodor Kopilov
September 26, 1956 — August 1959
Communist Party
3
Alexander Kardashov
August 1959 — October 12, 1963
Communist Party
4
Semen Tsvigun
October 21, 1963 — 1967
Communist Party
5
Heydar Aliyev
June 21, 1967 — July 14, 1969
Communist Party
6
Vitaliy Krasilnikov
June 1969June 18, 1980
Communist Party
7
Ziya Yusifzadeh
1980 — 1988
Communist Party
8
Ivan Gorelovsky
August 11, 1988 — August 19, 1989
Communist Party
9
Vagif Huseynov
August 19, 1989 — September 13, 1991
Communist Party
10
Ilhuseyn Huseynov
September 1991May 1992
Communist Party

The KGB played a major role in the 1989 Baku pogrom.