Eldar Aliyev
Eldar Aliyev was born on February 13, 1994 in Baku. In 2000, he entered the school-lyceum No. 70 in Baku. After completing his secondary education from school in 2011, he entered the faculty of Turkish World Business at Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC).
Eldar, who differed from his peers in terms of education and intelligence, in 2012 got the first place at the inter faculties competition “What? Where? When?” which took place at the university he studied. Then he repeated the same result in the intellectual game “Brain Ring”. He also successfully completed the final stage of the “I Inter-Student Economic Knowledge Olympiad” organize d by the “Youth Foundation”. He had a great interest in chess, mathematics and war-strategy games. He was nicknamed “Napo” among his friends because he loved to study and read about Napoleon. After graduating in 2015, he served as a motor machine gunner in the military unit “N” of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.
He started working in 2016 after returning from military service. On September 27, 2020, when the Second Karabakh War broke out, he voluntarily went to the front. He took part in the battles for the liberation of Fuzuli, Hadrut and Jabrayil. He was heroically killed in the battles for Fuzuli region on October 13. He was buried on October 18 in the cemetery of Ahmadli settlement in Baku.
After his death, he was awarded the “For the Motherland”, “For the Liberation of Khojavendin”, and “For the Liberation of Fuzuli” medals.
One of the articles in the New York Times about the Second Karabakh War the martyrdom of Eldar Aliyev was written about.
