Shikhali Gurbanov
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Shikhali Gurban oglu Gurbanov (Azerbaijani: Şıxəli Qurban oğlu Qurbanov; 1925, Baku—May 24, 1967, Baku) was an Azerbaijani writer, philologist and statesman.
Assassination[]
On May 24, 1967, he was murdered by a lethal injection of cyanic acid, while visiting a dentist. The dentist escaped and was never found.
The murder reportedly happened shortly before the extraordinary plenum of Azerbaijan Communist Party, where Gurbanov was expected to be elected the First Secretary of the Party.
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- 1925 births
- 1967 deaths
- Communist writers
- Azerbaijani philologists
- Azerbaijani literary theorists
- Deaths by poisoning
- People murdered in Azerbaijan
- Azerbaijani murder victims
- Azerbaijan Communist Party (1920) politicians
- 20th-century philologists
- Azerbaijani politician stubs