Nadir Nadirov, is a Kurdish

Kurdish people

The Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...

 academic and scientist from Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

. He was born in Nakhchivan and his family were deported to Kazakhstan in 1933. He is the president of association of Kurds in Kazakhstan (Berbang) and the first vice-president of the Engineering Academy of Kazakhstan. He is 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

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

during 1930s and 1940s.

Books

1. N.K. Nadirov, A.P. Popov, Protein from Petroleum, U.S. Joint Publications Research Service, Springfield, Virginia, 1974.
2. N.K. Nadirov, N. S. Nametkin, Podsolevye nefti Prikaspiĭskoĭ vpadiny, 302 pp., Izdvo Nauka Kazakhskoi SSR, 1983.(in Russian)
3. N.K. Nadirov, N. Markovich, Токоферолы и их использование в медицине и сельском хозяйстве, 334 pp., 1991.
4. N.K. Nadirov, Kurds of Kazakhstan, 556 pp., 2003 (in Russian).
5. N.K. Nadirov, Tengiz: more nefti, more problem, 2003, ISBN 9965405085.

External links

• Interview with Academician Nadir Nadirov , Kazakh Pravda, 2002.
• Family background of Nadir K. Nadirov