Commander of the Land Forces (Azerbaijan)

Commander of the Land Force
Commander of the Land Force
Azərbaycan Silahlı Qüvvələri Quru Qoşunları Komandanı (Azerbaijani)
	Incumbent; Hikmat Mirzayev; since 12 January 2024
	Ministry of Defence
Member of	General Staff of Azerbaijani Armed Forces
Reports to	Chief of the General Staff
Formation	23 July 2021
First holder	Anvar Afandiyev
Deputy	Deputy commander

Reports toChief of the General Staff

Formation23 July 2021

The Commander of the Azerbaijani Land Forces (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Silahlı Qüvvələri Quru Qoşunları Komandanı) is the administrative head in the Azerbaijani Land Forces, and is under the Chief of the General Staff and the Minister of Defence. The current Commander of the Land Forces is Colonel General Hikmat Mirzayev.

No.	Portrait	Officeholder	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Ref.
1		Afandiyev, AnvarLieutenant General Anvar Afandiyev (born 1965)	23 July 2021	11 January 2024	2 years, 172 days	^[1]^[2] ^[3]
2		Mirzayev, HikmatColonel General Hikmat Mirzayev (born 1968)	11 January 2024	Incumbent	2 years, 20 days

v t e Azerbaijani Armed Forces
Assets of the Ministry of Defence	General Staff Special Forces of Azerbaijan Military Band Service Ministry of Defence Industry
Land Forces	1st Army Corps HQ: Barda 2nd Army Corps HQ: Beylagan 3rd Army Corps HQ: Shamkir 4th Army Corps HQ: Baku Nakhchivan Garrison HQ: Nakhchivan 6th Army Corps 777th Special Forces Regiment Peacekeeping forces List of equipment
Air Force	Air Defence Troops Bases Nasosnaya Kyurdamir Dollyar Baku Kala Sitalchay List of modern equipment
Navy	641st Special Warfare Naval Unit Marine Infantry Coast Guard Underwater Offence
Paramilitary agencies	Internal Troops National Guard State Border Service State Security Service Foreign Intelligence Service YARASA
Education	National Defense University War College Higher Military Academy Jamshid Nakhchivanski Military Lyceum Heydar Aliyev Military Lyceum Higher Naval Academy
Wars and conflicts	World War I Battle of Baku (1918) Russian Civil War Armenian–Azerbaijani war (1918–1920) Sovietisation (1920) Invasion of Armenia (1920) World War II First Nagorno-Karabakh War (1991–1994) Four-Day War (2016) Second Nagorno-Karabakh War (2020)
Related articles	History Awards National Heroes Heroes of the Patriotic War

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Commander of the Land Force
Azərbaycan Silahlı Qüvvələri Quru Qoşunları Komandanı (Azerbaijani)
Incumbent Hikmat Mirzayev since 12 January 2024
Ministry of Defence
Member of	General Staff of Azerbaijani Armed Forces
Reports to	Chief of the General Staff
Formation	23 July 2021
First holder	Anvar Afandiyev
Deputy	Deputy commander