Samand Aliyevich Siabandov (Russian: Саманд Алиевич Сиабандов, Kurdish: Semendê Elî Siyabendov; 20 November 1909 – 14 November 1989) was a Soviet writer, military officer and politician of Kurdish origin[1][2][3][4] who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union during the Soviet war against Nazi Germany.

Siabandov joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1931[1] and in 1938 was elected deputy in the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.

[5] Later he was a Minister of Agriculture for the Armenian SSR.

After World War II he was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

[6] He was the author of two published poems in the Kurdish language and an Armenian-Kurdish dictionary.