By Vestnik Kavkaza
An avenue named after the first president of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, was opened in Ingush Malgobek. The opening ceremony took place in the City Day (last weekend Malgobek marked its 80th anniversary) and was devoted to the 6th anniversary of awarding Malgobek the City of Military Glory status
The head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov noted that the avenue was named after Heydar Aliyev to mark his huge contribution to the development of the republic. “The current generation commemorates our ancestors and dignity of our ancestors. Today we open the avenue in honor to a person who was a state, political activist of the Soviet period, the Soviet Union. There were many state activists in the Soviet past, but nobody remembers them today. But such people as Heydar Aliyev will always live in our memory. He contributed to all regions of the Soviet Union of the period. There is a monument to him in Ulyanovsk and many regions of Russia. He was a great friend, he did his best to construct and leave his imprint on history,” Yevkurov said.
“I assume that he didn’t know what Malgobek was, except for the fact that there was good oil, it was an oil producing town. But today we revive memory of him by opening the avenue. It tells us: create, construct, do good – in hundred years people will remember you as well. This is our history and we have to understand and respect it.”
The avenue was founded in honor of soldiers of the 9th, 223rd, 416th guard rifle brigade of the 44th Army of the North Group of Troops of the Transcaucasia Front. They defended Malgobek in 1942-1943.
According to Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, the Azerbaijani Diaspora actively participates in social life and political processes in the region. The head of the Azerbaijani ethnic-cultural Diaspora, Rahmatulakh Babayev, expressed his gratitude to Yevkurov for commemorating Heydar Aliyev and the Azerbaijanis who defended Malgobek from Nazis.
