Baku / 20.11.17 / Turan: November 20 marks the 26th anniversary of the death of high-ranking statesmen in a Mi-8 helicopter, shot down by Armenian armed groups in the sky over the village of Garakend of the Khojavend region. All 22 people aboard the helicopter perished, including high-ranking officials of the Azerbaijani state, journalists, and members of the Russian-Kazakh peacekeeping mission. The circumstances of this crime have not been fully disclosed. The flight recorders were taken to Moscow, but they were not deciphered.
After the destruction of the Mi-8, the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh grew even more and turned into military actions. Armenian armed forces using military equipment and personnel of the Soviet Army units began seizing Azerbaijani settlements and driving out the local Azerbaijani population.
Those Who Lost Their Lives in the Mi-8 Helicopter:
Tofig Ismayilov - Secretary of State
Ismet Gayibov - Prosecutor General
Muhammad Asadov - Minister of Internal Affairs
Zulfi Hajiyev - Deputy Prime Minister
Vagif Jafarov - MP
Veli Mammadov - MP
Osman Mirzoyev - head of the presidential press service
Gurban Namazaliyev - Deputy Minister
Igor Plavsky - Prosecutor of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region (NKAR)
Vladimir Kovalev - Head of the Interior Ministry Department for NKAR
Sergei Ivanov - Head of Security Service for NKAR
Nikolay Zhinkin - commandant of the state of emergency region
Sanlal Serikov - Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan
Mikhail Lukashev - Major-General of the Militia
Oleg Kocherev - Lieutenant Colonel
Rafig Mammadov - Assistant Secretary of State
Ali Mustafayev - TV journalist
Arif Huseynzadeh - illuminator for AZTV
Fahraddin Shahbazov - cameraman
Vyacheslav Kotov - helicopter crew commander
Gennady Domov - member of the helicopter crew
Dmitry Yalovenko - member of the helicopter crew. -0-
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