Alexander Bekzadyan
Appearance
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Bekzadianyoung.jpg/220px-Bekzadianyoung.jpg)
Alexander Harutyuni Bekzadyan (Armenian: Ալեքսանդր Բեկզադյան; 1879, Shusha, Russian Empire - 1938) was a Soviet statesman of Armenian descent.
He studied at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute and Zurich University (1911). He was arrested in Russia as a Communist party Baku and Transcaucasia Committees member, escaped in 1906. Bekzadyan participated in different social-democratic and communist conferences in Europe and Russia. In 1920-21 deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Armenia, Minister of Foreign affairs of Soviet Armenia. In 1926-30 deputy chairman of Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Republic government and Minister of Trade. Bekzadyan was the Ambassador of USSR in Norway (1930-1934), and then Hungary (1934-37).
References
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alexander Bekzadyan.
Categories:
- 1879 births
- 1938 deaths
- Great Purge victims from Azerbaijan
- People from Shusha
- People from Elisabethpol Governorate
- University of Zurich alumni
- Communist Party of Armenia (Soviet Union) politicians
- Armenian atheists
- Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Norway
- Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Hungary
- Armenian politician stubs
- Soviet Union stubs