Azerbaijan marks 31st anniversary of tragedy over Garakand village
SOCIETY 20 November 2022 - 09:59
Thirty one years have passed since the destruction of the helicopter with the representatives of the Azerbaijani political elite on board by the Armenian armed forces.
Some 22 people, including prominent state figures of the country, members of the government, MPs and journalists, were killed in the sky over the Garakend village in the Azerbaijani Khojavend district as a result of the destruction of the Mi-8 helicopter on November 20, 1991, APA reports.
Among the dead are Secretary of State of Azerbaijan Tofig Ismayilov, Attorney General Ismet Gaibov, State Adviser, former Interior Minister Mahammad Asadov, MPs Vagif Jafarov, Vali Mammadov, Deputy Prime Minister Zulfi Hajiyev, head of the department of the Presidential Administration, journalist Osman Mirzayev, Kazakh Deputy Interior Minister Sanlal Serikov, TV journalist of the Azerbaijan State Television Ali Mustafayev.
The official information was initially disseminated that the helicopter crashed into a rock in the fog. However, a few days later it was confirmed that the helicopter had been shot down by the Armenians.
The full list of those killed in the Mi-8 military helicopter crash as a result of the terrorist attack is as follows:
Azerbaijan's Secretary of State Tofig Ismayilov
Prosecutor-General Ismat Gayibov
State Adviser, former Interior Minister Mahammad Asadov
Deputy Prime Minister Zulfi Hajiyev
MP Vagif Jafarov
MP Vali Mammadov
Head of the department of the Presidential Administration, journalist Osman Mirzayev
Deputy Minister Gurban Namazaliyev
Prosecutor of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region Igor Plavskiy
Head of the Interior Department of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region Vladimir Kovalev
Head of the National Security Department on Nagorno-Karabakh Sergey Ivanov
Commandant of the emergency area Nikolai Zhinkin
Kazakh Deputy Interior Minister Sanlal Serikov
Major general of militia Mikhail Lukashov
Lt-Col Oleg Kocherev
Assistant Secretary of State Rafig Mammadov
TV journalist of the Azerbaijan State Television Ali Mustafayev
Illuminator on AzTV Arif Huseynzade
Videographer Fakhraddin Shahbazov
Helicopter crew commander Vyacheslav Kotov
Helicopter crew member Gennady Domov
Helicopter crew member Dmitriy Yarovenko
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