Izzat Orujova was born in Baku.

She studied at the Azerbaijan Oil Institute (1932).

She worked at the Azerbaijan Scientific Research Oil Refining Institute named after V. Kuybyshev (1932-1959), as a laboratory head at the Institute of Petrochemical Processes established on the basis of that institute (1959-1967), as a director of the Institute of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry (1967-1971), as a laboratory head at the Institute of Additive Chemistry (1971-1983). Her main research concerns increasing the production and quality of lubricants. She is one of the first Azerbaijani film actresses. Doctor of Technical Sciences (1962), Professor (1962),

Honored Worker of Science and Technology (1964), Laureate of the State Prize (1970), Academician (1972) Izzet Orujova died in 1983.