Alovsat Bakhshiyev

Alovsat Gazanfar Bakhshiyev (Azerbaijani: Əlövset Baxşıyev Qəzənfər oğlu, born 1956 in Sharur Rayon, Nakhchivan ASSR) has been the Prime Minister of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic since 2000.

Alovsat Bakhshiyev was born on June 22, 1956, in Karimbayli village of Sharur region, Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan. In 1963 he went to secondary school and graduated from high school in 1973. That same year, he entered the Finance and Credit Faculty of the Azerbaijan National Economic Institute of D. Bunyadzade and in 1977 graduated from the Institute as an economist.

Bakhsiyev started his career in 1977 as an assistant accountant in the Ilic County Utilities Department. He was in military service in the Soviet Army from 1977 to 1979. From 1979 to 1986, he worked in the Sharur Region wine-growing state farm "50th anniversary of the Nakhchivan ASSR" as a legal adviser, economist, deputy chief accountant, chief accountant. He worked in the Ilich Regional Agro-Industrial Unity as leading economist-financier since 1986, and then until January 1992 served as Vice Chairman of the Council of People's Deputies of Ilich District. In 1992–1994 he was first deputy chairman and later chairman of the Executive Committee of the Assembly of People's Deputies of Sharur Region.

Since August 1994 until February 1998 Bakhshiyev served as the Minister of Finance of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, from 1998 to February 2000 – as Minister of Finance and Economy of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.

Since February 11, 2000 Bakhshiyev has been serving as the Prime Minister of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.[1]

In 1990–1995 and 1995–2000 he was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Majlis of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.

In 2006 he was awarded the honorary title of Civil Servant of the Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan. In 2013 Bakhshiyev was awarded by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, with a 3rd degree "For Service to Fatherland" Order and in 2016 with the Order of Glory.

He is married and has 3 children.

References
  1. Biographical details on Alovsat Bakhshiyev.
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