Vagit Alekperov was born in Baku on Sept. 1, 1950, in the green village of Razin. Son of Azerbaijani and Cossacks, he was the fifth child in the family. Father - Kerbalaevich Yusuf Alekperov worked in the oil industry, and Vahid followed in his footsteps. Father had almost forgotten: he was only three years, when 54-year-old Yusuf, past the Great Patriotic War, was no more.Tatiana Fedorova, which Yusuf Alekperov met long before the war, stayed with the children alone. Vagit was the youngest in the family, which grew more than his three sisters and a brother Vagif. He was assiduous child is not fond of fun, the older sister literally push him out of the house to play. He was a good student at school, with 18-years went to work. The first page of his working career starts in the oil industry. In those years, Azerbaijan was the oil capital of the Union, the oil was saturated with the very atmosphere of the city, and there is nothing surprising in the fact that working career Vagit began drilling. Active, hard-working - the bosses were pretty.
