In 1980, he worked as construction master of the mobile mechanized division of No 1315 located in Rjev town of Tver Oblast of the USSR.
In 1993 he served as assistant and Deputy Head of Mingechevir Town Executive Government.
Between 1997 and 2000, he was Sector Manager of the social and political department of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan.
He was reelected to Milli Mejlis from Mingechevir Constituency No 47 and serves as Deputy Chairman of the Security and Defense Committee of the Parliament.
In 2001, he defended a thesis for obtaining the degree of Candidate on "Peculiarities of forming of the multiparty system in the Republic of Azerbaijan".