In 1981–1985, Jahangir Aliyev was the editor of “Soviet Armenia” newspaper, which is a body of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and the Council of Ministers. He was born in 1931 in Duzkend village of Amasiya region (Aghbaba district) of Western Azerbaijan. In 1952–1954, he worked as the second and then the first secretary of the district Komsomol Committee. After graduating from the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute, in 1956–1962, he was the editor of the “Kolkhozchu tribunasi” newspaper published in Amasiya region. After studying at the Baku Higher Party School in 1962–1964, he worked as the deputy editor of the inter-regional “Shirak” newspaper, and later as the director of the propaganda department in the Amasiya District Party Committee.

In 1965–1969, he worked as the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Amasiya District Soviet, then as an instructor in the propaganda and agitation department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia, and in 1974–1981, he worked as the first secretary of the Amasiya District Party Committee. He was the deputy chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR in 1982–1984. Jahangir Aliyev, who was forced to move to Baku in 1984, first worked in the press department of the Central Committee of the Azerbaijan C(b)P, and from 1991 until the end of his life he worked in “Khalq newspaper”.