Artur Rasizade, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Artur Rasizade

Azerbaijani politician

Date of Birth: 26-Feb-1935

Place of Birth: Ganja, Azerbaijan

Profession: engineer, politician, diplomat

Nationality: Azerbaijan

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Artur Tahir oglu Rasizade (Azerbaijani: Artur Tahir oglu Rasizad?; born 26 February 1935) is an Azerbaijani politician who served as the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan from 1996 until 2003, and again from 2003 until 2018.
Rasizade was a long-time Communist Party member during the Azerbaijan SSR period.
He was officially Prime Minister from 26 November 1996 until 18 October 1998 and from 24 October 1998 until 4 August 2003, when he resigned, ostensibly due to health reasons, enabling President Heydar Aliyev's son Ilham Aliyev to assume the office for less than three months.
Rasizade continued to act as Prime Minister for Ilham Aliyev, however, and he formally returned to the post on 4 November 2003, after Ilham Aliyev was elected as president.
He was succeeded in the position by Novruz Mammadov on 21 April 2018.
As First Deputy Prime Minister Rasizade had been Acting Prime Minister from 20 July 1996 until formally assuming the post on 26 November of that year.
Furthermore, as Acting First Deputy Prime Minister Rasizade held the same role from 31 October 2003, when Ilham Aliyev vacated the post to take up the presidency, until Aliyev had him formally re-appointed to the post on 4 November 2003.
Finally, Rasizade had been Acting Prime Minister for 6 days in October 1998, between his own two formal terms of office. Will a total tenure in office of 21 years and 187 days, Rasizade is by far Azerbaijan's longest-serving Prime Minister.