Shahin Iskandar oglu Mammadov

He was born on January 10, 1961, in the village of Yenikand, Gazakh District (now the village of Zalimkhan, Agstafa District). From 1979 to 1981, he performed fixed-term active military service in the Internal Troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs.

From 1986 to 1992, he served in the Internal Troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs as deputy commander of a post for political affairs, post commander, deputy battalion commander — chief of staff, and in other positions. In 1992, he was assigned to the disposal of the Main Department of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan. From 1992 to 1997, he served as commander of a separate battalion, deputy brigade commander — chief of staff, and regiment commander; from 1998, he worked at the Main Department of the Internal Troops as deputy chief of staff, deputy chief of staff — head of the Operations and Combat Training Department, and First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Internal Troops.

By Order of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated November 15, 2013, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs — Commander of the Internal Troops. He was awarded the military rank of major general in 2011 and lieutenant general in 2015.

In 1986, he graduated from the Saratov Higher Military Command School of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, and in 1999 from the academic course in strategic studies and state defence management at the Military Academy of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan.