Mikhail Gurbanov was born in 1916.

He graduated from Serpukhovskaya flight school in 1941.

Leitenant Gurbanov was posted to 591 IAP in December 1941. At this time this regiment was flying Polikarpov I-153s.

On 31 October 1941, leitenant Gurbanov was leading a flight of I-153s, which included mladshiy leitenant Ivan Vorob’yev when they claimed a shared Bf 109 shot down in the Yefremovo area.
This was the first victory of 591 IAP.

In March 1945, he left 591 IAP and was later posted to 862 IAP where he remained to the end of the war.

Kapitan Gurbanov ended the war with 1 shared biplane victory and a total of 1.
These had been claimed during 197 combat missions and 19 air combats (as of 5 November 1944).

Claims:

Kill no.	Date	Time	Number	Type	Result	Plane type	Serial no.	Locality	Unit
	1941
	31/10/41		1/?	Bf 109	Shared destroyed	I-153		Yefremovo area	591 IAP
	1943
	06/06/43		1/2	Bf 110	Shared destroyed	La-5		Kursk district	591 IAP
	1944
	09/04/44		1/2	Ju 88	Shared destroyed	La-5		Northern Air Defence Front	591 IAP
1	11/06/44		1	Ju 88	Destroyed	La-5		Northern Air Defence Front	591 IAP

Biplane victories: 1 shared destroyed.
TOTAL: 1 and 3 shared destroyed.

Sources:
All aces of Stalin 1936-1953 – Mikhail Bykov, 2014
Soviet Aces 1936-1953
Soviet Fighter Pilots 1936-1953 - Mikhail Bykov