Gurban Sultanov

Gurban Jamal oghlu Sultanov (, 22 March 1919 — 30 September 1998) was a Soviet Azerbaijani bureaucrat who was Minister of Industrial Construction of the Azerbaijan SSR (1969–1972).

Biography Gurban Sultanov was born on 22 March 1919, in the city of Ganja. After graduating from high school, he studied at the Transcaucasian Institute of Railway Engineers in Tbilisi, where he graduated in 1941. He participated in the liberation of Rostov, Taganrog, Nikolaev, Brno, Bratislava, Prague and other cities during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, was discharged from the army in October 1945 as a captain.

After returning from the war, Gurban Sultanov worked as a department head in the Azerbaijan Railway Trade Union Committee in 1946–1948, and as an instructor in the Baku Committee and the Central Committee of the Azerbaijan Communist Party. Later, he returned to production and held responsible positions in the "Azerdeniznefttikinti" system. For a long time since 1974, he worked as the director of the Baku Slate Plant under the Ministry of Construction Materials Industry of the Azerbaijan SSR.

Gurban Sultanov was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan and was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR (7th-8th convocation). He died on 30 September 1998.

Awards Order of the Red Banner of Labour — 1966 Order of the Red Star Order of the Patriotic War (1st, 2nd degree) Honored Builder of the Azerbaijan SSR — 1964