Khudadat bey Malik-Aslanov
| Khudadat bey Malik-Aslanov | |
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| Minister of Railway Communications of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan | |
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In office 28 May 1918 – 28 April 1920 |
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| Head of the Department of Railway Communications of the Azerbaijan SSR Supreme Soviet of the National Economy | |
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In office 1921–1933 |
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| Born | April 1879 Shusha, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Azerbaijan) |
| Died | 23 July 1935 Baku, Azerbaijan |
| Political party | Independent Azerbaijan Communist Party |
| Spouse(s) | Maria Malik-Aslanova |
| Residence | Baku |
| Occupation | Railwayman, Ph.D. |
Khudadat bey Aghabey oglu Malik-Aslanov (Azerbaijani: Xudadat bəy Məlik-Aslanov) (April 1879, Shusha – 23 July 1935, Baku) was an Azerbaijani politician and university professor.
Malik-Aslanov was born to a wealthy noble family in the city of Shusha in the Elisabethpol Governorate of the Russian Empire (now a city in Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh region). After graduation from the Shusha Realschule in 1899, he was sponsored by philanthropist Zeynalabdin Taghiyev to enter the Saint Petersburg Institute of Railway Transportation. He graduated from the institute with honours in 1904. He then was sent to work in the pioneering of the Saint Petersburg – Vologda railway. In 1905 Malik-Aslanov was assigned a position in the Transcaucasian Railway Department in Tiflis, of which he soon became the chairman. He earned a Ph.D. degree after publishing more than 10 works on railway communications.
After the February Revolution of 1917, the Russian Provisional Government appointed Malik-Aslanov Commissioner for the Communications of Transcaucasia. In April 1918 he became Minister of Railway Communications of the newly established and short-lived Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic seated in Tiflis. After the dissolution of the federation in May 1918 Malik-Aslanov held the same post in the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in four of the five cabinets. He was one of the members of the Azerbaijani National Council who signed the Declaration of Independence of 28 May 1918 proclaiming Azerbaijan's sovereignty, and became one of Members of Parliament of the newly founded state. In 1919 Malik-Aslanov was also selected to be member of the State Committee of Defense and the special committee for Romanization of the Azeri alphabet. He initiated the establishment of a bilingual Azeri-Russian institution of higher education to train specialists in the field of railway communications (later reorganized into the Baku College of Railway Transportation). He did not join any party throughout his pre-Soviet political career.
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