Nadir Nadirov

Nadir Nadirov was a Kurdish engineer from Kazakhstan. He was born in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and his family was deported to Kazakhstan in 1933. He was the president of association of Kurds in Kazakhstan (Berbang) and the first vice-president of the Engineering Academy of Kazakhstan. He was also director of the Neft scientific center. In 1992, he went public with the accounts of mass deportation of Kurds in the former Soviet Union during the 1930s and 1940s.