Rahmon Nabiyev

President of Tajikistan

5 October 1930 Leninabad, Tajik SSR

11 April 1993(1993-04-11) (63) Khujand, Tajikistan

2 December 1991 – 7 September 1992

Tajikistani politician Rahmon Nabiyevich Nabiyev (Tajik: Раҳмон Набиев , alternative spelling Rakhmon Nabiev; 5 October 1930 – 11 April 1993) was a Tajik politician who served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan from 1982 to 1985 and twice as the 2nd President of Tajikistan from 23 September 1991 to 6 October 1991 and from 2 December 1991 to 7 September 1992. He partly instigated the Tajik Civil War. Rising out of the regional nomenklatura, Nabiyev ascended to power in 1982 as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan. In 1985 he was ousted in a corruption scandal. After Tajik leaders declared the independence of the Tajikistan in September 1991, Nabiyev orchestrated his way back into power on 23 September, only to step down on 6 October as pressure mounted for him to vacate the office during the campaign for the presidential elections. Nabiyev won the elections and on 2 December 1991 he became the first elected President of Tajikistan.