Having graduated from the Railway Technical School in Baku in 1943, Imanov worked as a foreman in Hajili station. Thereupon, to continue with his education he entered the Railways Institute in Tbilisi, and was assigned the deputy chief of the railway to Alat-Nakhchivan part after graduation from the Institute.
In 1948, he was appointed the chief of Alat Department of People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs. From 1953 he took various positions having been transferred to Azerbaijan Railway Administration. Starting from 1960 to the end of his life Beshir Imanov held the position of the Police chief of Azerbaijan Railway Department.
Upon the decree by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, on 27 December 1967 Beshir Ismayil oglu Imanov was awarded “Hammer and sickle” medal and given the title of Hero of Socialist Labour for his socialist obligations and heroism in labour.
His meeting with Heydar Aliyev Alirza oglu at the Kremlin in 1967 was one of the well-remembered events. Aliyev had congratulated Beshir Imanov on his appointment to the high rank of colonel general.
Police colonel general Beshir Imanov died in Baku in 1969.
