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{{Short description|6th Prime Minister of Azerbaijan}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Artur Rasizade<br>Artur Rasizadə
| image = Artur Rasi-zadə, 27-02-2020.jpg
| caption = Rasizade in 2020
| imagesize = 220px
| office = [[Prime Minister of Azerbaijan#Prime Ministers 2| = 6th]] & 8th [[Prime Minister of Azerbaijan]]▼
| caption =
| successor1president = [[Ilham Aliyev]]▼
▲| office = [[Prime Minister of Azerbaijan#Prime Ministers 2|6th]] [[Prime Minister of Azerbaijan]]
| presidentdeputy = [[IlhamYaqub AliyevEyyubov]]
| term_start = 31 October 2003▼
| deputy = [[Yaqub Eyyubov]]
| term_end = 21 April 2018<br>{{small|Acting: 6 August 2003 – 4 November 2003<br>(for [[Ilham Aliyev]] to 31 October 2003)}}
▲| term_start = 31 October 2003
| term_endpredecessor = 21 April 2018<br>{{small|Acting: 6 August 2003 – 4 November 2003<br>(for= [[Ilham Aliyev]] to 31 October 2003)}}
| predecessorsuccessor = [[IlhamNovruz AliyevMammadov]]
| successorpresident1 = [[NovruzHeydar MammadovAliyev]]
| term_start1 = 20 July 1996▼
| president1 = [[Heydar Aliyev]]
| term_end1 = 4 August 2003<br>{{small|Acting: 20 July 1996 – 26 November 1996 and 18 October 1998 – 24 October 1998}}▼
▲| term_start1 = 20 July 1996
| predecessor1 = [[Fuad Guliyev]]
▲| term_end1 = 4 August 2003<br>{{small|Acting: 20 July 1996 – 26 November 1996 and 18 October 1998 – 24 October 1998}}
| predecessor1successor1 = [[FuadIlham GuliyevAliyev]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1935|2|26|df=y}}▼
▲| successor1 = [[Ilham Aliyev]]
| birth_place = [[Ganja, Azerbaijan|Ganja]], [[Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic|Azerbaijan SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]<br>{{small|(now Ganja, [[Azerbaijan]])}}▼
▲| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1935|2|26|df=y}}
| death_date =
▲| birth_place = [[Ganja, Azerbaijan|Ganja]], [[Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic|Azerbaijan SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| death_datedeath_place =
| party = {{unbulleted list|[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (until 1991)|[[New Azerbaijan Party]]}}▼
| death_place =
| children = 1 (a daughter)
▲| party = [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (until 1991)
| native_name = {{nobold|Artur Rasizadə}}
| native_name_lang = az
}}
'''Artur Tahir oghlu Rasizade''' ({{lang-langx|az|Artur Tahir oğlu Rasizadə}}; born 26 February 1935) is an [[Azerbaijan]]i politician who served as the [[Prime Minister of Azerbaijan]] from 1996 until 2003,2018 under the authoritarian regimes of Heydar Aliyev and againhis fromson 2003Ilham untilAliyev.<ref 2018name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Waal |first=Thomas De |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=glByDwAAQBAJ Rasizade|title=The wasCaucasus: aAn longIntroduction |date=2018 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-068308-time5 |pages=228 |language=en}}</ref> [[AzerbaijanThomas Communistde Party|Communist PartyWaal]] memberwrites of Rasizade's tenure that he "had no political influence", "was unknown duringoutside the [[Azerbaijancountry" Sovietand Socialisthis Republic|Azerbaijan"departure SSR]]barely merited periodany commentary."<ref name=":0" />
 
Rasizade was a long-time [[Azerbaijan Communist Party|Communist Party]] member during the [[Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic|Azerbaijan SSR]] period.
==Biography==
 
[[File:Dmitry Medvedev in Azerbaijan 2017.jpg|thumb|Rasizade with [[Dmitry Medvedev]].]]▼
==Early life and education==
▲[[File:Dmitry Medvedev in Azerbaijan 20172016.jpg|thumb|Rasizade with [[Dmitry Medvedev]].]]
Artur Rasizade was born on 26 February 1935 in Kirovabad (now [[Ganja, Azerbaijan|Ganja]]) in a teacher's family. His father Tair Mamed Oglou Rasizade was killed during [[World War II]] in 1942. In 1952, Artur Rasizade graduated from the Secondary school № 4 ([[Lankaran]]), and in 1957 he finished his studies at [[Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University]]. After his graduation, he started working as engineer in Azerbaijani institute of oil mechanical engineering. In 1973, Rasizade became a scientific vice-principal of this institute.
 
== Career in energy ==
In 1975, he was appointed as senior principal engineer of the [[SOCAR|State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic]] (SOCAR). In 1977, he became a director of the Azerbaijani institute of oil mechanical engineering. From 1978 to 1981, he worked as vice-chairman of the State Planning Committee of the Azerbaijan SSR. From 1981 to 1986, he was a chief of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Azerbaijan Central Committee. From 1986 to 1992, he was the first vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan SSR, supervising energy, mechanical engineering, defense, oil and chemical industries. From 1992 to 1996, he was a council of the Economic Development Fund.
 
== In government ==
From February 1996 he worked as an assistant of the Presidentpresident of Azerbaijan, [[Heydar Aliyev]]; then, on 3 May 1996, he was appointed as the Firstfirst Deputydeputy Primeprime Ministerminister of Azerbaijan. On 20 July 1996, he became Actingacting Primeprime Ministerminister of Azerbaijan, and on 26 November 1996 he was appointed as Primeprime Ministerminister. On 4 August 2003, he was relieved of his post to make way for Aliyev's son Ilham and was instead appointed as Firstfirst Deputydeputy Primeprime Ministerminister. However, on 4 November 2003 he resumed his post of Primeprime Ministerminister after Ilham took office as Presidentpresident. He served for 15 years as Primeprime Ministerminister before he was replaced in April 2018 by [[Novruz Mammadov]].
 
Artur Rasizade is married and has a daughter.
 
== CareerPrime minister ==
He was officially Primeprime Ministerminister from 26 November 1996 until 18 October 1998 and from 24 October 1998 until 4 August 2003, when he resigned, ostensibly due tofor health reasons, enabling President [[Heydar Aliyev]]'s son [[Ilham Aliyev]] to assume the office for less than three months. Rasizade continued to act as Primeprime Ministerminister for Ilham Aliyev, however, and he formally returned to the post on 4 November 2003, after Ilham Aliyev was elected as [[President of Azerbaijan]]. He was succeeded in the position by [[Novruz Mammadov]] on 21 April 2018. As Firstfirst Deputydeputy Primeprime Ministerminister, Rasizade had been Actingacting Primeprime Ministerminister from 20 July 1996 until formally assuming the post on 26 November of that year. Furthermore, as Actingacting Firstfirst Deputydeputy Primeprime Ministerminister, Rasizade held the same role from 31 October 2003, when Ilham Aliyev vacated the post to take up the presidency, until Aliyev had him formally re-appointed to the post on 4 November 2003. Finally, Rasizade had been Actingacting Primeprime Ministerminister for 6six days in October 1998, between his own two formal terms of office.
 
Will a total tenure in office of 21 years and 187 days, Rasizade is by far Azerbaijan's longest-serving Primeprime Ministerminister.
 
==Awards==
On 28 June 2006, Rasizade was awarded with [[Istiglal Order]] ({{Lang-Langx|az|Istiqlal ordeni|links=no|label=}}) for his contributions to economic development of Azerbaijan by President Ilham Aliyev .
 
On 25 February 2015, Rasizade was given [[Shohrat Order]] ({{Lang-Langx|az|Şöhrət ordeni|links=no|label=}}) for his special contributions to economic, scientific, social and cultural development.
 
Among others, Rasizade was awarded with [[Sharaf Order]] ({{Lang-Langx|az|Şərəf ordeni|links=no|label=}}) – Order of Glory; Order of National Cohesion; [[National Order of the Legion of Honour]] ({{Lang-Langx|fr|Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur}}).
 
In 1971, he was a winner of the [[USSR State Prize]] ({{Lang-Langx|ru|Госуда́рственная пре́мия СССР}}).
 
He was awarded "[[For service to the Fatherland Order|Order for service to the Fatherland]]" 1st Class on February 27, February 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.president.az/articles/35991|title=Ilham Aliyev presented Order “For"For Service to Motherland”Motherland" 1st Class to Artur Rasizade|website=Official web-site of President of Azerbaijan|language=en|access-date=6 March 2020-03-06}}</ref>
 
== References ==
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[[Category:New Azerbaijan Party politicians]]
[[Category:Politicians from Ganja, Azerbaijan]]
[[Category:Prime Ministersministers of Azerbaijan]]
[[Category:Deputy prime ministers of Azerbaijan]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Istiglal Order]]
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