Nadir Nadirov (Kazakh: Нәдір Кәрімұлы Нәдіров, Nádir Kárimuly Nádirov; Russian: Надир Каримович Надиров; 6 January 1932 – 24 August 2021[1]) was a Kurdish engineer[2] from Kazakhstan.[3] He was born in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and his family was deported to Kazakhstan in 1933.[4] He was the president of association of Kurds in Kazakhstan (Berbang[5]) and the first vice-president of the Engineering Academy of Kazakhstan. He was also director of the Neft scientific center.[6] In 1992, he went public with the accounts of mass deportation of Kurds in the former Soviet Union during the 1930s and 1940s.[7]