Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 10 / Trend M. Aliyev /
The president of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (ANAS), academician Mahmud Karimov passed away on Sunday.
This information was confirmed by the vice-president of the ANAS, Arif Hashimov.
It is reported that Kerimov died in one of Turkey's hospitals of heart failure.
Mahmud Karimov was born on October 18, 1948 in Yerevan. In 1971, he graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Azerbaijan State University. Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor, from 2001, the President of the National Academy of Sciences (ANAS).
He was married and had a daughter, Sabina and a son, Farid.