Aliashraf Abdulhuseyn oglu Alizade

Alashraf Abdulhuseyn oglu Alizade
Əlizadə Alaşraf Əbdülhüseyn oğlu
Born	April 24, 1911 Shamakhi
Died	March 22, 1985 Baku
Nationality	azerbaijani
Citizenship	Azerbaijan SSR
Awards	Order of Lenin

Academician Aliashraf Abdulhuseyn oghlu Alizade (1911–1985) was an Azerbaijani geologist. He was a full member and one of the founders of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (1945), and an Honorary Oilman of the USSR (1971). He was also a State Award laureate for the discovery and exploitation of new oil fields (1943) and for the preparation of the small electric perforator (1946).

Biography

Alizade was born on April 24, 1911 in Shamakhi. His father was engaged in cattle breeding and trade until the October Revolution. He graduated from the Baku school in 1924. In 1927, he was a statistician at the Azerbaijan Central Statistical Office. From 1929 to 1930, he was appointed director of the school in the village of Zergerli in the Khizi district of the Azerbaijan SSR. In 1930, he entered the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute and in March 1935, after graduating from the institute, he received the title of engineer-geologist. From 1933 since October 1942, A.A.Alizade began to conduct independent geological research in the trust "Azneftkəşfiyyat".

Aliashraf Alizade worked in the party from October 1942 to April 1946 - first secretary of the Baku City Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, and then second secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan. In 1945, by the decision of the Academic Council of the Gubkin Institute of Geology of the Azerbaijan Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, which was confirmed by the Higher Attestation Commission (HAC) of the USSR in the same year. Alizade was awarded the title of Professor of the Department of Geology of Oil and Gas Fields in 1945.

In April 1946, he was sent to Azneft as the head of the association, where he worked until January 1948. From the beginning of 1948 to August 1948, he was the head of the association "Aznefterazvedka". From September 1950 to September 1954, at the invitation of the Turkmen State University, he transferred to Ashgabat, where he worked as head of the Department of Geology of TSU and head of the Minerals sector of the Academy of Sciences of the Turkmen SSR. In 1954, Alizade returned to Baku and worked as a professor at the Department of Geology and Exploration of Oil and Gas Fields of the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute. In August 1959, Alizade was appointed director of the Azerbaijan Scientific Research Institute of Oil Production. Alizade was elected a member of the All-Union Paleontological Society in 1962.

Scientist, teacher and public figure Academician Alashraf Alizade, who devoted his whole life to the study and promotion of science, national and spiritual values, died on March 22, 1985 in Baku and was buried in the Alley of Honor.

Awards

In 1940, Alizade was awarded the badge “Excellent Student” The People's Commissariat for successful work on the discovery of new oil fields, and in 1942, for services to increasing oil production, the government was awarded the Order of Lenin. In 1943, for the discovery and exploitation of new oil fields, he and his team were awarded the Stalin Prize and awarded the Order of Lenin for the second time. In 1946, Alizade was awarded the Stalin Prize for the second time for the development of a small-sized electric perforator.

Publications

• Quick Guide for Field Geology. 1937.
• Quick Guide to the Field Geology. 1938.
• Maikop Formation of Azerbaijan and its oil potential. 1945.
• Oil fields of the Caspian region. 1945.
• Paleogene deposits of Azerbaijan. 1947.
• Earth and earthquakes. 1950.
• Oil and its origin. 1957.
• Paleogeography of the Balakhani basin. 1960.
• General Geology. 1961
• Geophysical study of the geological structure of the oil and gas-bearing regions of Azerbaijan. 1963.