Samir Eldar oglu Safarov was born on 2 January 1979, in Yeni Daşkənd, Barda District of the Azerbaijani SSR, then Soviet Union.

[4] Samir Safarov was sent to military unit N situated in Gadabay to continue his service by the order of the Azerbaijani Minister of Defense.

From 2003 to 2006, he was the deputy commander of the motorized rifle battalion in the military unit N situated in Fuzuli for educational work.

[5] Safarov, despite being discharged from the armed forces in 2018, voluntarily appealed to the military commissariat on 27 September to serve on the frontline during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.

In early October 2020, he began to serve as an officer, and took part in the Aras Valley campaign and Lachin offensive.