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Ismail EbragimovHero of Socialist Labor
Date of Birth: 31.12.1915
Country:  Azerbaijan |
Content:
- Biography of Ismail Ibragimov
- Education and Military Service
- Academic and Professional Achievements
- Leadership and Contributions
- He lives and works in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Biography of Ismail Ibragimov
Ismail Ibragimov, a Hero of Socialist Labor, was born on December 31, 1915, in the city of Ordubad, Nakhchivan Governorate (now Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan). His father, Ali Ibragimov (1871-1918), was a baker, and his mother, Badji Khanum (born in 1891), worked as a seamstress. Ismail Ibragimov's wife, Mariam Khanum (born in 1925), was an engineer. They had two sons, Aydin (born in 1948), who became a Doctor of Science and a professor, and Akif (born in 1952), as well as a daughter, Lyaman (born in 1968). Ismail Ibragimov also had three grandchildren: Sergey (born in 1979), Ismail (born in 1982), and Orkhan (born in 1996), and two great-grandchildren, Gulya (born in 1993) and Leyla (born in 1998).
Education and Military Service
After completing the fourth grade at a national school in Ordubad, Ismail Ibragimov moved to Baku. Being financially dependent on his elder brother, who was a student, Ismail urgently needed to acquire a profession. After six years of study at a general education school, he continued his education at the Mechanical Faculty of the N. Narimanov Industrial Technical School. In 1935, after graduating from the technical school, Ismail Ibragimov was sent to study at the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute named after M. Azizbekov. On the 4th year of his specialization in "Control and Measurement Devices," Ismail's path in science was determined for many years to come.
In February 1941, Ismail Ibragimov became the first certified Azerbaijani engineer in control and measurement devices and automation. He started working at the Central Production Research Laboratory of the Azerbaijan Energy System "Azenergo." After the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, he was sent to study at the S. M. Budyonny Military Communications Academy in Leningrad.
After completing his education at the academy, Ismail Ibragimov was appointed as a platoon commander in the 271st Rifle Division. He later fought on the North Caucasus Front as the commander of a communication platoon in the 77th Mountain Rifle Division (1942-1943) and as the deputy commander of a separate communication company (1943-1944). From 1944 until the end of the war, he served as the commander of a separate communication battalion on the 4th Ukrainian and 1st Baltic Fronts. He served in the Ural Military District from 1945 to 1946. Ismail Ibragimov was awarded two Orders of the Patriotic War 1st class, Orders of the Patriotic War 2nd class, the Order of the Red Star, and the Medal "For Courage." After demobilization in 1946, Ismail Ibragimov returned to the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute as a senior laboratory assistant at the Department of Control and Measurement Devices. A year later, he became an assistant at this department and the first Azerbaijani lecturer. It was during these years that his active scientific research work began. His interests were focused on measurement, control, automation in the oil production, oil refining, petrochemical, and chemical industries, as well as in energy.
Academic and Professional Achievements
In 1952, Ismail Ibragimov successfully defended his candidate dissertation on "Research on Electronic Potentiometers." He taught at the Department of Control and Measurement Devices (later renamed the Department of "Production Process Automation"), where he progressed from a senior laboratory assistant (1946-1947) to an assistant (1947-1948), a senior lecturer (1948-1954), and finally, an associate professor, professor, and head of the department (1954-1988). During these years, he prepared a number of textbooks in the Azerbaijani language, which became well-known among generations of students and specialists.
In 1961, for the first time in the practice of Soviet higher education institutions, a specialized methodological commission (later transformed into a scientific-methodological council) for higher oil, petrochemical, and gas education was created. Ismail Ibragimov was appointed as the chairman of this commission (scientific-methodological council) and held this position for 27 years (1961-1987), until the dissolution of specialized scientific-methodological councils in the higher education system of the country.
He was also a member of the oil section of the scientific-methodological council of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education of the USSR, the editor of the Scientific Bulletin of Higher Education of the USSR, and the All-Union Journal "Oil and Gas."
In 1964, Ismail Ibragimov was awarded the academic title of a professor, and in 1968, he defended his doctoral dissertation and became a corresponding member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences in the field of "Automation of Technological Processes."
Leadership and Contributions
As a prominent scientist in the field of management and an energetic organizer, Ismail Ibragimov was appointed as the First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Azerbaijan in 1970. During his eight years of work in this position, he made a significant contribution to the development of the economy of the Azerbaijan Republic and the improvement of management methods and style. He actively contributed to the establishment of knowledge-intensive industries in the republic, such as electronics, radio, and instrument engineering, as well as the development of new industrial technologies. He played a direct role in the modernization of the oil refining, chemical industries, energy complex, and engineering of Azerbaijan.
As the chairman of the republican commission for the management of the national economy based on the application of economic-mathematical methods and computers, Ismail Ibragimov laid the foundation for the widespread computerization of the national economy. Issues of computerization and informatization of society have been key in Ismail Ibragimov's scientific work to this day.
From 1978 to 1988, Ismail Ibragimov served as the rector of the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute of Oil and Chemistry named after M. Azizbekov. During this period, his scientific interests were focused on the problem of improving the efficiency of continuous productions through their automation. The results of this work were summarized in the monograph "Methods and Models for Planning Oil Refining Productions with Incomplete Information." Successful work was also carried out on the implementation of flexible automated productions in the aluminum industry of Azerbaijan. Throughout his scientific and practical career, Ismail Ibragimov published over 140 scientific papers, including 17 monographs and textbooks on automatic control and management issues.
In 1980, Ismail Ibragimov was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In 1983, he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR in the field of science and technology for his work on "Development and Implementation of Control and Information Systems for Improving Production Efficiency." In 1985, he received the USSR Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education Prize.
In 1986, he was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. In addition to the Gold Star of the Hero, Ismail Ibragimov was awarded two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, three Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order "For Merits to the Fatherland" of the German Democratic Republic, and numerous medals. He was repeatedly awarded Honorary Diplomas by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic. Ismail Ibragimov was a Distinguished Scientist of Azerbaijan, an honorary oil worker, and an honorary worker of the gas industry.
For several decades, Ismail Ibragimov was elected a member of the district party committee and its bureau, the deputy chairman of the Audit Commission of the Baku City Committee of the Party, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan and its bureau, a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and a delegate to the congresses of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan and the CPSU.
In 1988, Ismail Ibragimov was elected as the chairman of the Azerbaijan Republican Branch of the Soviet Children's Fund by the public of the republic. Currently, he heads the Republican Children's Fund, dedicating his efforts to the noble mission of caring for orphaned children. He is also the vice president of the International Association of Children's Funds.
In his free time, Ismail Ibragimov enjoys reading historical, analytical, and memoir literature.
