About the book: 2007 / In the new publishing project of the "Young Guard" "ZhZL: The Biography Continues" the first of the current leaders of foreign states is represented by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev . The authors of the book, writers Viktor Andriyanov and Huseynbala Miralamov, objectively, with documentary accuracy, trace the life path of their hero. Based on archival documents and evidence published for the first time, they refute the myths and legends accompanying each great personality. The book shows how the character of Ilham Aliyev, a statesman, a worthy successor to the work of Heydar Aliyev, the national leader of Azerbaijan, was consistently formed from his childhood, youth, and student years. The biography of the book's hero unfolds against the broad historical background of Soviet and post-Soviet history..