Israfil Israfilov (Azerbaijani: İsrafil İsrafilov;[1] Russian: Исрафил Исрафилов),[2] Israfil Muhammed bey (Polish: Israfił Muhamed bey, Muchamed Israfił-Bey),[3][4] or in short Israfil-Bey[5] (1892, or 1893 — 1946) was Russian, Azerbaijani and Polish military officer, Standartenführer of the Waffen-SS.

[2] After the revolution, he returned to the Caucasus, and served as a captain in the 2nd Infantry Division of the newly created Muslim (Azerbaijani) Corps.

By order of June 25, 1919, Israfil Israfilov was appointed commander of the 5th Baku Infantry Regiment, which had just begun to form.

Along with such political emigrants as Mahammad Amin Rasulzade, Mir Yagub Mehdiyev, Mirza Bala Mammadzade, Ali Azertekin, Dzangir Kazim-bek (Jahangir bey Kazimbeyli), Naghi Bayramli, he was published in the North Caucasian émigré periodicals Severnyj Kavkaz and Gortsy Kavkaza, which were published in Warsaw in 1930s.

In the subsequent years of World War II, he actively cooperated with the pro-German part of the Azerbaijani emigration, the authorities of Nazi Germany, and the command of the Wehrmacht.

During the war, German military-intelligence service established the Special Group Bergmann in Mittenwald under the command of Theodor Oberländer.

The Azerbaijani combat group under the command of Israfil Bey was part of the Kaukasischer Waffen-Verband der SS.

[7] After World War II, he was captured and handed over to the USSR by the United States Armed Forces, and on 11 July 1945, he was sentenced to death by the Baku Military District Tribunal.