Kerim Abdraufowitsch Chakimow

Kerim Abdraufowitsch Chakimow ( Russian Карим Абдрауфович Хакимов ; born November 28, 1892 in Djusjanowo, Ufa Governorate , Bashkortostan ; † January 10, 1938 , Butowo , Moscow Oblast ) was a Soviet diplomat .

Life

From 1908 to 1909 Kerim Chakimow studied at the Kargaly Madrasa in Orenburg Oblast . From 1910 to 1911 he studied at the Madrasa Galia in Ufa (city), founded in 1906 . In his youth he worked in a mine near Konibodom . In 1917 he passed his Abitur as an external student in Tomsk . From 1918 to 1919 he was a member of the Orenburg Muslim Military Revolutionary Committee, provincial commissioner for education. During a conflict with the White Army in Turkestan in August and September 1919 , he was in command of the second battalion in the Orenburg area and a Tatar brigade of the Red Army .

In 1920, with a recommendation from Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev, he joined the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, headed by Georgi Wassiljewitsch Tschitscherin . From 1920 to 1921 he was Deputy Head of the Political Department of the Turkestan Military District. At times he was secretary of the Communist Party of Turkestan , authorized representative of the People's Republic of Bukhara in the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and secretary of the Communist Party of Bukhara. From October 1921 to July 1924 he was consul general in Mashhad .

In December 1922 Georgi Wassiljewitsch Tschitscherin agreed during the Lausanne Conference to establish diplomatic relations with a representative of Hussein ibn Ali (Hejaz) . On August 9, 1924, Kerim Chakimow submitted his letter of accreditation to Hussein ibn Ali (Hejaz) and received exequatur as consul general . In 1925, Kerim Chakimow made a Hajj to Mecca . After Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud attacked and occupied the Hejaz, the Soviet government was the first to recognize the new regime . So Khakimov became the doyen of the diplomatic corps in Jeddah .

From 1926 to 1928 Kerim Chakimow held the title of Plenipotentiary of the Soviet Union in the Kingdom of the Hejaz , Najd and associated territories. In 1927 he ordered a freighter with sugar, kerosene and flour from Odessa to Jeddah . The flour was given the name Moscow for its quality . Chakimov saw Wahabism as an ideology with "anti-imperialist potential".

From January 1929 to 1931 he was the agent of the Soviet Union in Yemen .

From 1932 to 1935 he studied at the Institute of the Red Professorship in Moscow .

Kerim Chakimov was shot dead in the Stalinist purge on the shooting range in Butowo.

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  Kerim Chakimow with samovar .

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  Chakimov family

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  Kerim Chakimow in a caftan

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  Kerim Chakimow, portrait

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  Monument to Kerim Abdraufowitsch Khakimow

predecessor	Office	successor
	Plenipotentiary of the Soviet Union in the Kingdom of Hejaz, Najd and Allied Territories 1926 to 1928	Nasir Tjurjakulowitsch Tjurjakulow

Individual evidence

1. ^ Clive Leatherdale: Britain and Saudi Arabia, 1925-1939: The Imperial Oasis , p. 62.
2. ↑ Yury Barmin: How Moscow lost Riyadh in 1938 , aljazeera.com October 15, 2017.
3. ↑ Vitaliĭ Vi͡acheslavovich Naumkin: Radical Islam in Central Asia: Between Pen and Rifle , Lanham (MD) 2005, p. 119.
4. ^ Mizan: a review of soviet writing on the Middle East, Central Asian Research Center, London, University of Oxford. St. Anthony's College, Vols. 10-11 , 1968, pp. 211.