Manaf Suleymanov
Birth date:
03 March 1912
Death date:
12 September 2001
Manaf Suleymanov was born in the Lahij settlement of Ismayilli.
He studied at the geological and exploration faculty of the Azerbaijan Petrochemical Institute (1932-1937).
He began his career as an engineer in the Garadagh oil and gas fields department. He was an assistant at the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute, an associate professor of the department of exploration of oil and gas fields. He began his literary career with the novel "The Secret of the Earth", published in the "Azerbaijan" magazine in 1947. The books "The Secret of the Earth", "Storm", "On the Peaks", "In the Bosom of the Waves", "What I Heard, What I Saw", "We Have Reached the Last Spring", "The Oil Millionaire" (a documentary novel), "The First Democratic Republic in the East", "My Years of Apprenticeship" were published. He made literary translations from English, published articles in periodicals, sometimes publishing them under the signature "Farajoglu". For the first time, he wrote scientific-publicistic books about the history of Baku, Baku millionaires and rich people, and personalities of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. He worked for about 30 years in the State Archives of the former USSR and Azerbaijan to write these books.
Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1942), Associate Professor, Honored Worker of Culture (1991) Manaf Suleymanov died in 2001.
