Azerbaijan. Baku region. Baku. Black leather shoes and chrysanthemum flowers on the marble grave of Heidar Aliev. The deceased political leader Heydar Aliyev ( May 10, 1923 - December 12, 2003), also spelled as Heidar Aliev, Geidar Aliev, Haydar Aliyev, is buried in the cemetery. Heydar Aliyev was the president of Azerbaijan for the New Azerbaijan Party from June 1993 to October 2003. © 2007 Didier Ruef