| Huseyn Najafov Hüseyn Nəcəfov | |
| Office: | First Secretary of the Nakhchivan Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan |
| Term Start: | October 1940 |
| Term End: | January 1948 |
| Predecessor: | Kazim Ismayilov |
| Successor: | Yusif Yusifov |
| Office2: | Minister of Forest and Wood Processing Industry of the Azerbaijan SSR |
| Term Start2: | 6 March 1950 |
| Term End2: | 1951 |
| Office3: | Minister of Forest Industry of the Azerbaijan SSR |
| Term Start3: | 28 January 1948 |
| Term End3: | 6 March 1950 |
| Predecessor3: | Rza Ismayilov |
| Birth Date: | 1 January 1907 |
| Birth Place: | Kolanly, Erivan uezd, Erivan Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Death Place: | Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union |
| Resting Place: | Alley of Honor |
| Party: | CPSU |
Huseyn Hummat oghlu Najafov (az|Hüseyn Hümmət oğlu Nəcəfov, 1 January 1907 — 16 July 1967) was an Azerbaijani party and state figure, First Secretary of the Nakhchivan Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan (1940–1948), Minister of Forestry and Wood Processing Industry of the Azerbaijan SSR.
Huseyn Najafov was born in 1907 in Kolanly village of Erivan uezd. He moved to Ganja when he was 19 years old.[1] Here he rose from a worker in a textile factory to the position of chairman of the factory committee.[2]
From 1930 he worked as the secretary of Ganja city Komsomol Committee, the head of the cultural education department of the Central Committee of Azerbaijan Komsomol, the head of the political department in Nakhchivan MTS, the head of the personnel department of Baku city Party Committee.[2] In 1939 he was elected the first secretary of the Youth Union of the Lenin Komsomol of Azerbaijan, in 1940-1948 he worked as the first secretary of the Nakhchivan Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan. From 1948 he was the Minister of Forest Industry of the Azerbaijan SSR.[1] [3]
Huseyn Najafov graduated from the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1937. He was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (2nd convocation) and the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR[1] and the Supreme Soviet of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (2nd convocation).[2]
Huseyn Najafov died in Baku in 1967 and was buried in the Alley of Honor.[1]