Alexander Myasnikov

Alexander Myasnikov

Alexander Fedorovich Myasnikov (born Alexander Mjasnikjan ; Armenian Ալեքսանդր Մյասնիկյան ; Russian Александр Фёдорович Мясников ; January 28 ^jul. / 9. February  1886 ^greg. In Nakhichevan-on-Don , † 22. March 1925 in Tbilisi ) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary Armenian descent .

life and career

Alexander Myasnikov was born as Alexander Myasnikjan in 1886 into an Armenian merchant family in Nakhichevan-on-Don , the Armenian district of Rostov-on-Don . As a young man he Russified his Armenian surname from Myasnikjan to Myasnikov and went to Moscow in 1903 to study there. First he visited the Lasarev Institute for Oriental Languages ​​there , a center of the Armenian diaspora in Moscow. Then he switched to Lomonosov University and enrolled in the law faculty. He successfully completed his studies there in 1912. As early as 1906 he joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia , the forerunner of the later Communist Party of the Soviet Union .

Because of his political activities, Myasnikov was temporarily expelled to Baku in 1906 . From 1912 to 1914 he worked in a law firm in Moscow. He then served in the Russian Army and was also involved in the First World War from 1914 to 1917 . After the Russian February Revolution in 1917 , he took the battle name Martuni and devoted himself entirely to politics. As a former soldier on the Russian Western Front, he was in Minsk at the time and began publishing a Bolshevik newspaper, Zvezda , there in 1917 .

At the turn of the year 1918/1919 he was finally appointed first secretary of the newly created Belarusian Soviet Republic . In this position he advocated the integration of Belarus into Russia. However, in the same year Belarus was merged with the Lithuanian Soviet Republic to form a short-lived joint republic within the Soviet Union. Mjasnikow was replaced by the Lithuanian Winzas Mizkjawitschjus-Kapsukas .

In September 1919, Myasnikov was injured in an attack by an anarchist group in Moscow. From 1921 he was the People's Commissar for Military Affairs in the Armenian Soviet Republic . When this was transformed into the Transcaucasian Soviet Republic with Georgia and Azerbaijan , he again occupied a leading position in the new state structure. In addition to his work as a politician, he also wrote some works on Marxism-Leninism , he also devoted himself to Armenian literature and wrote theater reviews. At the same time he became a member of the All-Soviet Council of People's Commissars . In 1925 he died in a plane crash near Tbilisi.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.melkonchaltr.narod.ru/myasnikyan/myasnikyan.htm
2. ↑ http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Miasnikov,+Aleksandr+Federovich