Hamid Sultanov

Hamid Sultanov
Cover of the Soviet Union, 1969
Chair of the Council of People's Commissars of the Nakhchivan ASSR
In office 1925–1929
People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the Azerbaijan SSR
In office 1920–1921
Personal details
Born	26 May 1889 Shynykh-Ayrum, Kazakh Uyezd, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	1938 (aged 48–49) Baku, Azerbaijan
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Spouse(s)	Ayna Sultanova
Children	Vladlen Sultanov
Occupation	Commissar, statesman

Hamid Hasan oglu Sultanov (Azerbaijani: Həmid Sultanov; 26 May 1889 – 1938) was a Soviet Azerbaijani politician, People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the Azerbaijan SSR and later Chair of the Council of People's Commissars of the Nakhchivan ASSR.

Hamid Sultanov was born on 26 May 1889 in the village of Shynykh-Ayrum, Kazakh Uyezd (present-day Gadabay Rayon, Azerbaijan). In autumn 1906, Sultanov moved to Baku where he was hired as a plumber's assistant on Balakhany oilfields. In 1907, he joined the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Party, which would later become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1913, he graduated from a polytechnicum in Leipzig, after which he returned to Baku. He participated in the general labour strike in Baku in 1914. In 1917, Sultanov joined Hummet and later that year became an executive member of the Baku Council. Beginning in 1918, he fulfilled various duties with the Bolshevik administration of Baku. After the Battle of Baku, resulting in the Bolshevik's temporary loss of control of the city, Sultanov relocated to Astrakhan, Russia, where he headed the Muslim bureau of the Astrakhan regional committee of the Communist Party.

In the summer of 1919, he was sent to the South Caucasus on an underground mission with Dadash Bunyadzade and Viktor Naneishvili. In February 1920, he joined the Communist Party of Azerbaijan and the Central Military Headquarters of the Baku branch of the Russian Communist Party.