Surat Huseynov

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Surat Davud oghlu Huseynov (Azerbaijani: Surət Davud oğlu Hüseynov; 12 February 1959 – 31 July 2023) was an Azerbaijani military officer and politician who served as Prime Minister after ousting Azerbaijan President Abulfaz Elchibey in the 1993 Azerbaijan military coup. Huseynov, who had enriched himself through Soviet Azerbaijan's black market, commanded forces on the northern front in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. He took the rank of colonel and used his money to attract forces under his command. Huseynov had no military training and had no military successes during the war. Azerbaijan President Abulfaz Elchibey removed Huseynov from command, which prompted Huseynov to order his forces to withdraw from the front line and enabled Armenian forces to take Kelbejer. In June 1993, Huseynov's forces seized the weaponry left by a departing Russian airborne division in Ganja. He subsequently marched on Baku, demanding the resignation of Elchibey and the entire Azerbaijan government. Elchibey declined to call his supporters into the streets to confront Huseynov's army, as he feared that this would embroil Azerbaijan into a conflict akin to the then ongoing Georgian Civil War. Elchibey opted instead to resign. Heydar Aliyev was subsequently installed as president and he in turn installed Huseynov as prime minister. Amid this turmoil, Azerbaijan lost enormous swaths of territory to Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and had effectively lost the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Huseynov was later imprisoned.