Mirsa Dawud Gusejnow

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Memorial plaque on the building where Mirsa Dawud Gusejnow lived in Baku

Mirsa Dawud Bagir ogly Gusejnow ( Russian Мирза Давуд Гусейнов ; Azerbaijani Mirzə Davud Hüseynov ; * March 1894 in Baku ; † March 21, 1938 ) was an Azerbaijani - Soviet politician. In 1920 he was first secretary of the Communist Party in the newly formed Azerbaijani SSR , from 1930 to 1933 he held this post in the Tajik SSR .

Life

Gusejnow was born in Baku in 1894, then part of the Russian Empire . In 1913 he moved to Moscow and studied there at the “ Commercial Institute ”. There he experienced the Russian Revolution and joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1918 . He eventually returned to his homeland in the Caucasus, where he actively supported the Bolsheviks in taking power in what was then the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan , which was annexed by Soviet Russia in 1920 after only three years of independence. In the same year Mirsa Dawud Gusejnow was appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party in the new Azerbaijani Socialist Soviet Republic - he was de facto head of government in Soviet Azerbaijan. However, he only stayed in this position for a few months and then worked as People's Commissar . From 1930 to 1933 Gusejnow was first secretary of the Communist Party in the Tajik Soviet Republic, before moving to the People's Commissariat for Education in 1933 .

In 1937 he was - like many communists of the first hour - dismissed from all offices and arrested in the course of the Stalinist Great Terror . He was executed in 1938, but then posthumously rehabilitated in 1958.

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