Ganja, Azerbaijan
Mammadbaghir Sheykhzamanli was born in 1880 in the Elisabethpol, the present-day Ganja, Azerbaijan. In June 1919 he was appointed the head of Organization for Combating Counterrevolution established by the national government of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. After working for a while, Sheikhzamanli was dismissed from his post in August 1919, in connection with his political activities as a member of the Musavat Party in the first cabinet of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.