Baku, June 7, AZERTAC Physician-scientist, Doctor of Medical Science, Academician of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Veli Yusif oghlu Akhundov was born in Baku on May 14, 1916. V. Akhundov graduated from the Azerbaijan State Medical Institute in 1941. Veli Akhundov was a military doctor in 1941-1949, a scientific worker and later a director at the Institute of Hygiene. In 1949-1952, he was a Deputy Health Minister of Azerbaijan SSR, and in 1952-1953, he headed the Baku region health department. In 1953-1954, V. Akhundov served as the deputy head of the departments of administration, trade, finance and planning of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan. Akhundov was a Health Minister of Azerbaijan SSR in 1954-1958. He was elected one of the secretaries of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan in February 1958, and later, in July 1958, he was appointed a Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan SSR. He had held that public position until July 1959. In 1959-1969, he served as the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan.V. Akhundov defended his Ph.D. thesis in 1956 and the Higher Attestation Commission of the USSR conferred on him the Doctor of Philosophy degree and in 1964 the Doctor of Medical Science. On July 14, 1969, he was relieved from the position of First Secretary. At the meeting of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan held under the chairmanship of Heydar Aliyev, medical and domestic services were maintained, which were used by V. Akhundov as the First Secretary. V. Akhundov was elected an academician of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences in 1969. In 1969-1972, he served as Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan SSR and headed the healthcare department of the Academy. Akhundov was the director of the Institute of Virology, Microbiology and Hygiene named after G. M. Musabeyov in 1972-1986.Veli Akhundov died on August 22, 1986 in Baku. He was buried in the Alley of Honors.