Deputy chairman of the Azerbaijani Popular Front who warned Primakov there would be resistance
Polyanichko told him that at midnight troops would enter the city "whatever the cost." Mammadov replied that the army would meet resistance.
As deputy chairman of the Azerbaijani Popular Front, Etibar Mammadov stood at the forefront of the national independence movement and met with Yevgeny Primakov and Viktor Polyanichko on January 19, 1990, where he was warned that troops would enter Baku. That evening Polyanichko told him the army would go in "whatever the cost"; Mammadov replied there would be resistance, and he later became a key witness to the Kremlin's bloody crackdown on the city. He went on to found the Azerbaijan National Independence Party, finished second in the 1998 presidential election, and remained a durable opposition leader in independent Azerbaijan.
Career Timeline
- 1978–1988Lecturer in history, Baku State University
- 1988–1991Deputy chairman and board member, Azerbaijani Popular Front
- 1990.01–11Imprisoned at Lefortovo Prison (arrested after Black January)
- 1990–2000Deputy, Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan SSR / National Assembly
- 1991Member, National Defence Council; co-authored the Constitutional Act on State Independence
- 1992–2004Founder and chairman, Azerbaijan National Independence Party (NIPA)
- 1998, 2003Presidential candidate (1998: 2nd place, 11.6%; 2003: 4th place, 2.92%)