Mustafa Mustafayev

Mustafa Mustafayev was an Azerbaijani power engineer and teacher who studied abroad as one of the students of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. Born on 17 October 1895 in Saloglu in the Gazakh district, he finished the Baku Real School and was one of the hundred young people sent by the parliament in 1919 and 1920 to study at the republic expense. He studied in the energy faculty of the University of Toulouse and did practical training at the Renault company, which offered him work as an engineer. Returning to the Soviet Union in 1927, he worked in Baku as a power engineer on the building of several electric stations and of the Baku tram line. He was arrested in 1942 as the husband of a French woman, exiled to northern Kazakhstan, and after release worked as a power engineer in Samarkand until 1961. He later taught part time at the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute and died in Baku in 1972. He is included here as an early Azerbaijani electrical engineer.