Today, one of the villages announced by President Ilham Aliyev is Gazyan village of Gubadli. This village gave Azerbaijan a National Hero and a participant of the First Karabakh War, Major Aliyar Aliyev, who sacrificed his life for our country. A.Aliyev was born in 1957 in Gazyan village of Gubadli. When the Karabakh War broke out, Aliyar Aliyev voluntarily joined the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. First, he was appointed commander of the intelligence unit of the battalion, then deputy commander of the battalion for supplies.
The battalion he organized was also known among the people as the "Battalion of Wrestlers". Aliyev was especially distinguished when he captured the positions of Basharat, Susuz Dag, Suarasi, and on September 30, 1992, he led the battle in the direction of Lachin region. In May 1991, the village of Yukhari Cibikli in Gubadli, and on October 12, 1992, in the battles for the Topagaj-Basharat heights of this region, the regiment led by him inflicted heavy losses on the enemy. A few days after the Khojaly genocide, artillerymen of the regiment led by Aliyar Aliyev overthrew Gorus without the order of their superiors, and Moscow and Yerevan media reported that 336 people were killed in the attack. In this regard, three days of mourning were declared in Armenia, and Aliyar Aliyev and his three fighters were sentenced to death at rallies in Yerevan.
On April 16, 1992, a 50-member sabotage group led by Karle, a Syrian-Armenian nicknamed "Black Leopard," blew up the Lalazar Bridge and attacked Gubadli's border villages to cut off communication with the district center and seize strategic heights. As a result of intelligence information, Aliyar Aliyev and his fighters surrounded them, waiting for their way, surrounded them, killed 11 enemy soldiers, including their commanders, and exchanged their bodies for Azerbaijani captives. On June 24, 1992, Aliyar Aliyev's fighters shot down three helicopters flying to bomb the center of Gubadli region. He took part in Operation Shurnukhu in August 1992. In the autumn of 1992, Aliyar Aliyev, along with 40 volunteer fighters, liberated about 40 villages of occupied Lachin from the Armenians in four days. Aliyar Aliyev's last battle took place on October 3, 1992, two kilometers from Lachin. Battalion commander Aliyar Aliyev and his driver Alisadat Agayev died heroically in the battle for the "thorny field". He was buried in Gazyan village of Gubadli region.