Alexander Bekzadyan
Alexander Harutyuni Bekzadyan (Template:Lang-hy; 1879 – August 1, 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet statesman of Armenian descent.[1]
He studied at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute and Zurich University (1911). He was arrested in Russia as a member of the Baku and Transcaucasian Committees of the Bolshevik party but escaped in 1906. Bekzadyan participated in several conferences of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in Europe and Russia. In 1920-21 he served as deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Armenia and as the first People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of Soviet Armenia.
From 1926 to 1930 he was deputy chairman of the government of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Republic and People's Commissar of Trade. Bekzadyan served as the ambassador of the USSR in Norway (1930-1934) and then Hungary (1934–37).
On November 21, 1937, during the Great Purge, he was arrested and on charges of counter-revolutionary activities and was sentenced to death by the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court. On August 1, 1938, the sentence was carried out at the Kommunarka shooting ground. Bekzadyan was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Bekzadyan Alexander Artemyevich". Archived from the original on 2020-02-15.
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