People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Mammad Amin Rasulzade Məhəmməd Əmin Rəsulzadə Musavat leader who headed the Azerbaijani National Council that declared the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918
- Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev Heydər Əlirza oğlu Əliyev The KGB general who rose from Baku to the Kremlin and founded independent Azerbaijan
- Abulfaz Gadirgulu oghlu Elchibey Əbülfəz Qədirqulu oğlu Elçibəy The pan-Turkist dissident who became Azerbaijan's first democratically elected president
- Etibar Salidar oglu Mammadov Etibar Səlidar oğlu Məmmədov Deputy chairman of the Azerbaijani Popular Front who warned Primakov there would be resistance