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Yusifzadeh Ziya Mamediya ogly: 1980-1988
Ziya Yusifzadeh was born in 1929 in Sheki district of Azerbaijan. In 1945, after graduating from the secondary school, he was working as a teacher in Zagatala city of Azerbaijan. In 1952, he graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages as a “pedagogue of English language”. In 1956, he started to work in the State Security Committee (KGB) of USSR. During his activity in the State Security Committee, he was awarded different medals. In 1977, he was first promoted to the military rank of major-general, and in 1984 to the leutenant-general. In 1980-1988, he served as a chief of the State Security Committee of Azerbaijan SSR. By the decree of July 28, 1999, of the president of the Republic of Azerbaijan Z.Yusifzadeh was appointed as chief of the Academy of the Ministry of National Security. By the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan of March 25, 2004, he was decorated with an order of the “Flag of Azerbaijani”. 
HEADS OF SPECIAL SERVICES OF AZERBAIJAN
1. Sheikhzamanly Mamedbaghir Salekh: June-August, 1919
2. Sheikhzamanly Naghi Salekh: August, 1919-March, 1920
3. Pankratov Semen Andreevich: May-June, 1920
4. Aliyev Baba Aliyoldash: June-October, 1920
5. Khanbudagov Eyyub Shirin: October, 1920-February, 1921
6. Bagirov Mir Jafar Abbas: February, 1921-May, 1927
7. Rizayev Novruz Kerim oglu: May, 1927 – October, 1929
8. Bagirov Mir Jafar Abbas: 1921-December, 1930-August
9. Frinovsky Mikhail Petrovich: September, 1930 – April, 1933
10. Agrba Aleksey Sergeyevich: April, 1933 – March, 1934
11. Sumbatov (Topuridze) Yuvelian Davidovich: March, 1934 – January, 1938
12. Raev-Kaminskiy Mikhail (Yakov) Grigoryevich: January-November, 1938
13. Yemelyanov Stepan Fyodorovich: February, 1939 – August, 1953
14. Guskov Anatoly Mikhaylovich: August, 1953 – April, 1956
15. Kopilov Fyodor Ivanovich: September, 1956 – August, 1959
16. Kardashov Alexander Vasilyevich: August, 1959 – October, 1963.
17. Svigun Semen Kuzmich: 1963 – 1967
18. Aliyev Heydar Alirza ogly: June, 1967 – July, 1969
19. Krasilnikov Vitaliy Sergeevich: August, 1969 – June, 1980
20. Yusifzadeh Ziya Mamediya ogly: 1980-1988
21. Gorelovsky Ivan Ivanovich: August, 1988 – August, 1988
22. Huseynov Vagif Aliovsat ogly: August, 1989 – September, 1991
23. Huseynov Ilhuseyn Pirhuseyn ogly: September, 1991 – May, 1992
24. Tahmazov Fakhraddin Ayet ogly: May, 1992 – June, 1993
25. Imranov Nariman Shamo ogly: June, 1993 – October, 1994
26. Abbasov Namig Rashid ogly: October, 1994 – July, 2004
27. Mahmudov Eldar Akhmed ogly