Lala Shovkat
| Lala Shevket | |
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| Secretary of State of Azerbaijan | |
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In office July 7, 1993 – January 13, 1994 |
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| Preceded by | Ali Karimli |
| Succeeded by | position abolished |
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November 7, 1951 Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR |
| Nationality | Azerbaijani |
| Political party | Azerbaijan Liberal Party |
Professor Dr. Lala Shevket (Azerbaijani: Lalə Şövkət, sometimes transliterated as Lala Şövkat or Lala Shovkat; Лала Шевкет in Russian transliteration) (born 7 November 1951, Baku) is an Azerbaijani politician, the Leader of the National Unity Movement and Azerbaijan Liberal Party. She served as the Secretary of State between 1993 and 1994.
Lala Shevket’s father – Shevket bey Muslim bey oqlu Khalifabeyli-Hajiyev was born 1912 in Quba province of Azerbaijan into a family of noble landowner and philanthropist Muslim bey Khalifabeyli. Shevket bey’s mother Tughiya khanum was the descendant of Imam Shamil and daughter of a Dagestani Khan (Prince) of Tabasaran.
Shevket bey graduated from the State Pedagogical University in Baku as philologist and historian. He was one of the founders and leaders of the Party of Azerbaijan’s People’s Freedom (created 1940 in Quba City). From 1948 this party continued its covered activity under the name “MARS” (Independent Azerbaijan Republic Party). Its aim was to free Azerbaijan from communist colonialism, Stalinist yoke and to create an independent national state. Shevket bey died on 2 March 1983.
Mother – Siddiqa khanum Shihali bey qizi Useynova was born 1920 in Baku City into a noble family of Shihali bey and Hajikhanum Useynov. She graduated in 1950 from Azerbaijan State Medical University. Later on she received her MSc and worked as a principal of Medical College in Baku. Her uncles Yusif bey, Yunus bey and Rahman bey Useynov graduated from different respected universities of the Russian Empire. In 1937 being members of national Musavat party they were all persecuted and sent to Siberia (Siddiqa khanum’s father Shihali bey died before that in 1933). Siddiqa khanum died on 8 March 1988.
On leaving in 1968 189th secondary school of Baku, Lala Shevket entered N.Narimanov Azerbaijan State Medical University and received qualification of a professional physician. Her first scientific publications are attributed to that time. After graduation, she moved to Moscow where she had her post graduation and master course on the surgery chair of Patrice Lumumbe International University under the guidance of world-famous academician, professor V.V.Vinogradov.
At 25, she received M.Sc. becoming the youngest M.Sc. in area of surgery in the USSR. Since 1978, Lala Shevket had been working at N.V.Sklifosovsky Moscow Scientific-Research Institute of the First-aid. Lala Shevket traveled a long road from a junior research officer to a leading scientific specialist and the head of the department.
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