About Samand Siabandov
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 who was a Yazidi Kurd. He 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 and in 1938 was elected deputy in the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. 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. He was the author of two published poems in the Kurdish language and an Armenian-Kurdish dictionary. In a postwar account written by G. Kolmanov approximately two decades after the Second World War, Siabandov was described as a highly decorated lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Army living in Yerevan. Kolmanov noted that Siabandov was widely recognized among local residents, who greeted him in public, and that he wore multiple high Soviet military decorations, including the Hero of the Soviet Union award. In the same account, Siabandov told Kolmanov that he had been “one of the first Kurd boys parents had consented to their attending school.”
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