During World War Second

On December 25, 1940, the Institute was rewarded with the Red Banner of the Alliance's highest awards for its achievements over its 20th anniversary. In connection with the beginning of the war in 1941, new tasks were put in front of the Institute and its employees, and their concerns had increased. From the beginning of the war, employees and students of the Institute were sent to the front to give their debts to the country. In 1941 S.B.Gokayev was appointed rector of the Institute. In these years, a special gang was created to build defence facilities in the Institute. Sending workers in the industry and institutional students to the front has led to a large number of staff shortages in managing production at mining and factories operating under the motto "Everything is for Frontline". To overcome the shortfall, according to the decision of the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the measures to improve the training of staff at the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute named after M. Azizbayov on March 5-12, 1943, 1,000-1200 students were enrolled in 1943/44 academic year. By the Council of People's Commissars of November 12, 1943, the publication of textbooks, textbooks for students in Azerbaijan was consolidated, and exceptional closed food and industrial goods stores for students and academic staff of the Institute were launched. In 1943 the Institute was accepted 1147 and 844 people 1944. Over 1,000 engineers were trained during the war. In 1945 there were 4500 students, including listeners of preparatory faculty. On March 11, 1944, by the decision of the directive authorities, pre-war rules were established in higher education institutions, and staff training was promoted as the most important problem. After the war, there were fundamental changes in the life of the Institute. At that time, six of 8 faculties were directly involved in training personnel for the oil industry. The post-war expansion of the Institute's activities were related to the development of the industry and, first of all, the oil industry in the country. If before the war, 98% of oil production fell to Baku, Grozny and Maykop; after the war, rich oil fields in the Ural-Volga, Emba, Central Asia, Kazakhstan and Far East regions were discovered, and their mines had sharply increased demand for oil specialists. In those years, the graduates of the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute played a key role in the development of these fields. In 1946, the Institute was subordinated to the People's Commissariat of the USSR under the supervision of the USSR Department of Polytechnic and Industry Higher Education Institutions. In the structure of the Institute in 1950 functioned Geological-Exploration, Petroleum, Technological, Mechanical, Energetic, Engineering-Economy, Transport and Architecture-Construction faculties. In 1952, Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute was established to prepare specialists for civil construction, transport and mechanical engineering based on the Institute of Architecture and Construction, Transport, Faculties of Mechanics and the Faculty of Hydromelioration of the Azerbaijan Institute of Agriculture. From the Azerbaijan Institute of Industry to Polytechnic Institute, 57 professors and teachers have passed 11 chairs, and the Institute has only started to prepare specialists in the oil field. Extension of the evening and part-time education has been done. According to the decision of the Union Government on March 14, 1959, the Institute has been renamed to Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry named after M. Azizbayov (AzIOC). This was due to the fact that the chemical industry was declared a priority area in the country. Prior to the AzIOC, the developing Union has set to prepare highly qualified engineers and scientists for oil and petrochemical industries. In 1951-1959 the Institute produced 6695 engineers, of which 3501 were Azerbaijanis, including 749 girls. In these years, according to the decision of the republican government, the speciality of industrial economics from the Department of Planned Economics and the Azerbaijan State University for the development of mineral deposits were transferred to AzOI and the radio engineering speciality from AzOI Polytechnic Institute. In the 1958-1959 academic year, a department was established in Sumgait to study at the evening department of young people working there. By the decision of the Government of Azerbaijan dated March 30, 1960, a training and advisory centre was established in Sumgayit for studying evening and part-time departments of AzIOC. The decision envisages the preparation of a member of the training and consultation station for synthesis and synthetic rubber, chemical and machine-building specialities. In the 1962-1963 academic year, the educational-advisory station in Sumgayit was transformed into a branch of AzOI as a part of the evening and part-time department. The first admission to the branch was in 1962. The first student admission to the unit was carried out in 1962, and 225 students were admitted to the evening department and 125 students in the correspondence department. According to the decision of the Union Government dated June 3, 1965, the branch was transformed into a factory of technical sciences at the synthetic rubber plant in Sumgayit. Since there were no appropriate conditions for teaching, most of the courses were held at the school of Sumgayit No. 11 and the building of the 8-year school in the City of Chemists. By 1970, most of the teachers were educators invited from AzOI. Since 1992, the branch in Sumgayit has been functioning as a Free Industrial Industrial Institute, becoming a Sumgayit State University since June 13, 2000. In November 1965, the Institute celebrated its 45th anniversary. The 50th anniversary of AzOI was celebrated on July 5, 1971, with the participation of the government delegation at the club named after Shahriyar, including the head of our republic, Heydar Aliyev. The government awarded more than 100 members of the collective honorary titles and decrees, and 30 were given apartments. The Institute was awarded the Honorary Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic for services in the training of qualified personnel for the national economy of Turkmenistan. In 1978, Professor Ibrahimov was re-appointed as the rector of the Institute. The Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute employees named after M. Azizbeyov worked in the legendary "Oil Rocks" and in Baku Refineries, Sumgayit Large Chemicals Enterprises and Research Institutes of the Republican Academy of Sciences, Tyumen, Sakhalin, Tatarstan Mines and all corners of the country. The AzIOC was included in the list of 70 leading universities of the former Soviet Union in the republican higher educational institutions, under the decision of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR № 271 of April 6 1978 "Enhancing the effectiveness of scientific research in high schools". That is why in 1979, the name of the faculty was changed to "Gas-Oil-Mining". In 1988, under the joint order of the Ministry of the Shipbuilding Industry and the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education of the Union, Nord Scientific Production Association and AzNKI established the second educational-scientific-production complex.