 Complete the following phrase:  Hamid Sultanov was born on 26 May 1889 in the village of Shynykh-Ayrum, Kazakh Uyezd present-day Gadabay Rayon, Azerbaijan. In autumn 1906, Sultanov moved to Baku where he was hired as a plumbers assistant on Balakhany oilfields. In 1907, he joined the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Party. In 1913, he graduated from a polytechnicum in Leipzig, after which he returned to Baku. He participated in the general labour strike in Baku in 1914. In 1917, Sultanov joined Hummet and later that year became an executive member of the Baku Council. Beginning in 1918, he fulfilled various duties with the Bolshevik administration of Baku. After the 