About the book: 2005 / Heydar Aliyevich Aliyev was the second person in the government of the Soviet Union and a member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee. After an unjust resignation, he found the strength to return to big politics and lead a sovereign Azerbaijan. Writers Viktor Andriyanov and Huseynbala Miralamov talk about his life and work, about unknown pages of his biography, based on archival sources, memories of relatives and friends, associates and comrades of G. A. Aliev, his political opponents. The book uses photographs from the family archive of Heydar Aliyev, the Nakhichevan Museum of G. A. Aliyev, the personal photographer of President G. A. Aliyev - R. Bagirov, E. Grabilin, the archive of the newspaper "Tribuna" and the authors.