Lala Shevket

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lala Shevket
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Nov 7, 1951(1951-11-07)
Age	73
Birthplace	Baku
Country	Azerbaijan
Horoscope	Capricorn

Lala Shevket Biography

Lala Shevket is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on November 7, 1951 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Lala Shevket (Azerbaijani: Lalə Şövkət, sometimes transliterated as Lala Şövkat or Lala Shovkat; Лала Шевкет in Russian transliteration) (born 7 November 1951, Baku) is an Azerbaijani politician, the Leader of the National Unity Movement and Azerbaijan Liberal Party. She served as the Secretary of State between 1993 and 1994.

Shevket bey graduated from the State Pedagogical University in Baku as philologist and historian. He was one of the founders and leaders of the Party of Azerbaijan’s People’s Freedom (created 1940 in Quba City). From 1948 this party continued its covered activity under the name “MARS” (Independent Azerbaijan Republic Party). Its aim was to free Azerbaijan from communist colonialism, Stalinist yoke and to create an independent national state. Shevket bey died on 2 March 1983.

The “Bloody January” events of 1990 became a sort of a detonator of the flight of her political career. The whole world became the witness of the barbarian military demarche of the Soviet Army against the peaceful population of Baku because of the press-conference, called by Shevket at the permanent representation of Azerbaijan in Moscow on 20th and 21 January. It was the time, when the republic was taken in a ring of information blockade… The correspondent of an American information agency NBC called this press conference “The historical moment in the process of increasing the self- consciousness of Azerbaijan people.”

In 1991 alongside Eduard Shevardnadze, Alexander Yakovlev, Sobchak, Popov, Brazauscas and other democrats Shevket was one of the founders of the Movement for Democratic Reforms in the USSR. The same year she founded the International socio-political movement “For Democratic Reforms in Azerbaijan Republic and Protection of Human Rights”, which became the first international political organization of a national republic of the union officially recognized by the Soviet government. Representations of this organization were founded in Azerbaijan as well as other Soviet republics and countries of Western Europe.

“Perestroika” epoch and the worsening of in the end of 1980s of the Qarabagh problem greatly influenced the forming of her social and political activity. It became the basis for the cooperation with the prominent leaders of Soviet Union’s democratic movement.

Lala Shevket Net Worth

Lala Shevket is one of the richest Politician from Azerbaijan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lala Shevket 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

On leaving in 1968 189th secondary school of Baku, Shevket entered N.Narimanov Azerbaijan State Medical University and received qualification of a professional physician. Her first scientific publications are attributed to that time. After graduation, she moved to Moscow where she had her post graduation and master course on the surgery chair of Patrice Lumumbe International University under the guidance of world-famous academician, professor V.V.Vinogradov.

At 25, she received M.Sc. becoming the youngest M.Sc. in area of surgery in the USSR. Since 1978, Shevket had been working at N.V.Sklifosovsky Moscow Scientific-Research Institute of the First-aid. Shevket traveled a long road from a junior research officer to a leading scientific specialist and the head of the department.

Mother – Siddiqa khanum Shihali bey qizi Useynova was born 1920 in Baku City into a noble family of Shihali bey and Hajikhanum Useynov. She graduated in 1950 from Azerbaijan State Medical University. Later on she received her MSc and worked as a principal of Medical College in Baku. Her uncles Yusif bey, Yunus bey and Rahman bey Useynov graduated from different respected universities of the Russian Empire. In 1937 being members of national Musavat party they were all persecuted and sent to Siberia (Siddiqa khanum’s father Shihali bey died before that in 1933). Siddiqa khanum died on 8 March 1988.

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In 1995, Shevket created the Liberal Party of Azerbaijan and was elected as its leader on the Constituent Conference, which took place on 3 June 1995. Thus, she became the fonder of liberal ideology in modern Azerbaijan. The first book on theory of liberalism in Azeri language was published under her guidance.

Facts & Trivia

Lala Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Azerbaijan. Lala Shevket celebrates birthday on November 7 of every year.

On 7 June 2003 in the Liberal Party Congress Shevket resigned from the party in order to start her presidential campaign as an independent candidate. Thus, she has laid another cornerstone into the political tradition of Azerbaijan.