Education
Sultanov graduated from the faculty of physics and mathematics at the Baku State University in 1942, and fought on the Eastern Front of World World War World War II
Sultanov graduated from the faculty of physics and mathematics at the Baku State University in 1942, and fought on the Eastern Front of World World War World War II
Sultanov"s main works tackle celestial mechanics and the genesis of the Solar System, as well as the origin, structure and evolution of the asteroid belt and minor planets. Having demobilized from the military in 1946, Sultanov began his scientific work in the Baku State University and completed postgraduate studies. Sultanov initially worked in the Institute of Physics and Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. From 1953 Sultanov managed the planning and construction of the telescope at the Shamakhi Astrophysical Observatory.
In 1953, he became the head of the newly established Astrophysics Department at that academy.
In 1976-1981, Sultanov was the Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. Sultanov was also the head of the Shamakhi Astrophysical Observatory. Sultanov developed the hypothesis that a ring of minor planets formed as a result of successive disintegrations of few larger primary bodies that emerged at the beginning of the evolution of protoplanetary material.
Sultanov died during a fire in the administrative building of the Shamakhi Observatory in Baku on March 5, 2008.
Sultanov was a member of the International Astronomical Union and European Astronomical Society.