Ruhulla Ali oglu Akhundov ( azerb. Ruhulla Əli oğlu Axundov ; January 1 (13), 1897 , Shuvelyany village of Baku district - April 21, 1938 ) - Azerbaijani revolutionary, Soviet party and statesman, publicist, scientist, People's Commissar of Education of the Azerbaijan SSR.
| Ruhulla Akhundov | |||||||
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| azerb. Ruhulla Əli oğlu Axundov | |||||||
 Ruhulla Akhundov in 1936 | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Sergey Mironovich Kirov | ||||||
| Successor | Levon Isaevich Mirzoyan | ||||||
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| Predecessor | Mustafa Kuliev | ||||||
| Successor | Maksud Mammadov | ||||||
| Birth | January 1 (13), 1897 with. Shuvelany, Baku district, Baku province , Russian empire | ||||||
| Death | April 21, 1938 (41 years old) | ||||||
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| Spouse | Frida Naumovna Shlemova | ||||||
| The consignment | VKP (b) (since 1919) | ||||||
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Biography
Ruhulla Akhundov was born on January 1 (13), 1897, in the village of Shuvelyany in the family of a teacher. He graduated from the madrasah , a real school, a trading school, and was fluent in several eastern and western languages. Since 1916, Akhundov worked in a printing house. In 1917, he was a member of the group of Azerbaijani "Left" Social Revolutionaries . In 1918, the editor of the Izvestia newspaper of the Baku Council, and in 1919, the Azerbaijani illegal Bolshevik newspaper Communist . In the same year he joined the Communist Party . After the final establishment of Soviet power in Azerbaijan, he became the head of the village work department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bolsheviks of the Azerbaijan SSR , then secretary of the Baku Party Committee, editor of the Communist newspaper and other periodicals. In the period from 1924 to 1930, Akhundov was secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of the Azerbaijan SSR, director of Azerneshar (state book publishing house), people's commissar of education of the Azerbaijan SSR. He was criticized as a member of the "right-leftist bloc." He made a confession of errors.
In 1930, Ruhulla Akhundov was elected secretary of the Transcaucasian Regional Committee of the CPSU (b). The delegate of the 10-17th congresses of the party, the 2nd Congress of the Comintern . The last years of his life, he worked at the Institute of Party History under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bolsheviks of Azerbaijan, the head of the Department of Arts under the SNK of the Azerbaijan SSR, participated in the organization and leadership of the Azerbaijan branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. One of the first translators of the works of Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels and Lenin into Azerbaijani. Author of a number of works on history, art, literature, editor of a two-volume Russian-Azerbaijani dictionary (1928-29).
In the 1930s, he was a member of the editorial board of the journal Revolution and Nationalities .
In December 1936, Akhundov was removed from all posts, expelled from the party and arrested. The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court sentenced to death. He was shot and buried at the secret training ground of the NKVD Kommunarka-Loza on April 21, 1938 [1] . Posthumously rehabilitated and reinstated in the party in 1959 .
He was criticized by Vladimir Mayakovsky in the poem "Pompadour", in the epigraph of which the poet quotes from the newspaper "Pravda", No. 111/3943:
CEC member comrade Ruhula Ala Ogly Akhundov hit the passenger's face in the restaurant-car of the Moscow-Kharkov train because the passenger refused to close the curtain by the window. In compiling the inquiry Comrade Akhundov posted his Tsikov ticket. |
Wife - Frida Naumovna Shlemova, after the death of her husband, the NKVD was twice arrested. [2]
Rewards
- Order of Lenin [3]
Notes
- ↑ The name of Akhundov is contained in the “firing list” of 04/19/1938 , see AP of the Russian Federation, op.24, case 416, sheet 6 , so the probable date of death is April 21. Reliable information about the place of his death is missing; he does not appear in the specks of those shot at the Kommunarka firing range .
- ↑ V. Ya. Andreev “Memories”
- ↑ Akhundov Ruhulla Ali oglu . TSB. Archived on June 6, 2012.
Sources
- Biography (inaccessible link)
- biography on Chronos