Khudadat bey Malik-Aslanov

Khudadat bey Agha bey oghlu Malik-Aslanov (Azerbaijani: خداداد بگ آقا بگ اوغلی ملک اصلانوف, Xudadat bəy Ağa bəy oğlu Məlik-Aslanov) (April 1879 – 23 July 1935) was an Azerbaijani engineer, politician and university professor.

After graduation from the Shusha Realschule in 1899, he was sponsored by philanthropist Zeynalabdin Taghiyev to enter the Saint Petersburg Institute of Railway Transportation.

In April 1918 he became Minister of Railway Communications of the newly established and short-lived Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic seated in Tiflis.

[1] From 1921 to 1930 Khudadat bey Malik-Aslanov served as Dean of the Faculty of Building Engineering at the Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute.

Malik-Aslanov assisted in the building of a railway from Baku to Julfa and in the introduction of the first elektrichka in the Soviet Union,[1] which took place in Azerbaijan.