Samand Siabandov

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{{Infobox military person

| name = Samand Aliyevich Siabandov

| birth_date = {{birth date|1909|11|20|df=y}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1989|11|14|1909|11|20}}

| image = Samand Aliyevich Siabandov.jpg

| caption = Siabandov in the 1940s

| birth_place = Asandzhan, Kars Oblast, {{nowrap|Russian Empire}}
(now in Kars Province, Turkey)

| death_place = Yerevan, Armenian SSR
Soviet Union

| placeofburial =

| nickname =

| allegiance = {{flagicon|USSR}} Soviet Union

| branch = Red Army

| serviceyears = 1941–1945

| rank = Lieutenant-colonel (podpolkovnik)

| unit = 755th Rifle Regiment

| commands =

| battles = World War II

| awards = Hero of the Soviet Union

| laterwork = Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR
Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Armenian SSR

}}

Samand Aliyevich Siabandov ({{langx|ru|Саманд Алиевич Сиабандов}}, {{langx|ku|Semendê Elî Siyabendov}}; 20 November 1909 – 14 November 1989) was a Soviet writer, military officer and politician of Kurdish origin{{Cite web|url=http://www.ezidipress.com/blog/eziden-im-zweiten-weltkrieg-helden-des-grossen-vaterlaendischen-krieges/|title=Êzîden im Zweiten Weltkrieg - Helden des Großen Vaterländischen Krieges|last1=Memo Agatî|first1=Memo|last2=Rzgyoan|first2=Rustam|date=2015-05-09|website=ÊzîdîPress|language=de-DE|access-date=2019-12-22}}{{cite news |title=Trump Says the Kurds 'Didn't Help' at Normandy. Here's the History. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=2019 |page=2001 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/world/middleeast/trump-kurds-normandy.html |access-date=21 December 2019|last1=Fortin |first1=Jacey }}{{cite news|title=Moscow News: "Samand Siabandov from Armenia"|url=http://www.saradistribution.com/moscow-news.htm|access-date=6 February 2016}} 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 and in 1938 was elected deputy in the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.{{Cite book|last=Kolmanov|first=G.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8hgRjS5EVEC&q=samand+siabandov+education&pg=PA141|title=USSR Information Bulletin|date=1946|publisher=The Embassy|pages=141|language=en}} 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.{{Cite book|last=Congress|first=United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6NYjAQAAMAAJ&q=samand+siabandov+and+armenia&pg=RA6-PA716|title=Reports and Documents|date=1958|pages=716|language=en}}

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