Knunyants-Rizel Farandzem Mirzanjanovna (Faro Minaevna) ( 1885 , Shusha - November 30, 1980 , Moscow ) - a prominent revolutionary, an old Bolshevik (member of the party since 1903 [1] ). A participant in three Russian revolutions, after the October Revolution, she worked in the Baku party organization, in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, in the Political Directorate of the Ministry of the Navy of the USSR. She was awarded the Orders of Lenin and the Badge of Honor. [2]
| Farandzem Knunyants | |
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| Knunyants-Rizel Farandzem Minaevna | |
| Date of Birth | 1885 |
| Place of Birth | Shusha ( Nagorno-Karabakh ) |
| Date of death | November 30, 1980 |
| Place of death | Moscow |
| Citizenship |  Russian Empire →  the USSR |
| Occupation | revolutionary , party leader, writer |
| Spouse | Alexander Pavlovich Serebrovsky |
| Children | Yuri Rizel and Natalya Rizel |
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Biography
Farandzem Minaevna (Mirzadzhanovna) Knunyants-Rizel was born in 1885 in the city of Shusha ( Nagorno-Karabakh ) in the family of a teacher. [3]
At the end of 1899 she moved to Baku , where she studied at the St. Gymnasium. Nina. Member of the student social-democratic circle in Baku. In May 1902, Faro, as she was called for brevity, was arrested along with her brothers and their wives for participating in the May Day demonstration. [four]
In 1903 she joined the Bolshevik party . Then she entered the 6th grade of the 1st female gymnasium of Baku without the right to finish the 8th, pedagogical, class, as unreliable. In 1904 she graduated from the 7th grade of a gymnasium and was sent with a party assignment to Petersburg .
In 1905 she returned from St. Petersburg to Baku. [5] She took part in the activities of the committee of the RSDLP Baku (1901-1904, 1906-1909, 1914-1917), in the social democratic organizations of St. Petersburg, Tiflis and other cities. Member of the revolutionary movement in Baku. [6]
In September 1909, she was again sent with a party assignment to St. Petersburg, where she entered the Law Faculty of the Bestuzhev Courses, because at that time they did not require a certificate of trustworthiness.
After completing the courses in 1914 she was sent to party work in Tula . But she did not have time to settle there, as she was deported to Baku.
In 1924, she moved to Moscow with her family. In 1924-1957 worked in the Union Radio Committee , the apparatus of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (B), was the editor of the magazines "What to do?" and "Worker of Radio", was the head of the political department of the USSR Navy [7] .
Since 1932 she was in the Moscow branch of the All-Union Society of Old Bolsheviks (membership card No. 1466).
Until her death in 1980, she was the oldest member of the CPSU.
She died in Moscow at the age of 95 and is buried in the Kuntsevo cemetery .
Family
Grandfather fought at the head of a rebel squad against the Persian Muslim yoke, for the annexation of Karabakh to Russia.
Father - Mirzadzhan Knunyants, teacher. He was punished for disrespectful attitude towards priests and after many years of teaching he was forced to leave his native village of Inga, having moved to Shusha.
The elder brother Bogdan Knunyants (1878-1911) was one of the founders of the RSDLP, a delegate to the Second Congress of the RSDLP in 1903, where he became close friends with Vladimir Ulyanov, since the split of the party into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks - the Bolshevik. Repeatedly arrested and exiled. He died in the Baku prison hospital in 1911 from typhoid fever.
Another brother, Ludwig Knunyants (1877-1952), like Bogdan, graduated from the Shushensk real school. In 1896 he entered the chemistry department of the Petersburg Institute of Technology. Later he studied at the chemistry department of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, which he graduated in 1910. Chemistry is hereditary in the family of Knunyantsev. Bogdan also studied at the Department of Chemistry of the Petersburg Technological Institute.
Nephew, son of Ludwig, Ivan Ludwigovich Knunyants (1906-1990) - the largest Soviet scientist-chemist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, major general engineer, Hero of Socialist Labor, winner of the Lenin and State Prizes.
Nephew, son of Bogdan, Valentin Bogdanovich Knunyants (12.19.1907-09.11.1987) - professor, laureate of the State Prize, laureate of the Stalin Prize (06.27.1946). Sooner, in 1918, he lost his mother and since 1921 he was brought up in the family of F.M. Knunyants.
The first husband is Karl Riesel, a Baku Bolshevik. Children: son - Yuri Karlovich Rizel (08/11/1914 -?) An artist of two-dimensional space [8] ; daughter - artist Natalya Karlovna Rizel.
The second husband is Alexander Pavlovich Serebrovsky . [9]
Notes
- ↑ Sargsyan S.T. Encyclopedia of Artsakh-Karabakh. St. Petersburg, 2005 .-- 312 p.: Ill. ISBN 5-9676-0034-5
- ↑ F. Knunyants-Riesel IN THE BAKU UNDERGROUND :: In sb. Women in the revolution. - M.: PUBLISHING HOUSE OF POLITICAL LITERATURE, 1959. - p. 41
- ↑ TSB, 1981
- ↑ Rusov A.E. Court trial: The Tale of Bohdan Knunyants
- ↑ Understand the cult of Stalin. M., 1989, p. 93.
- ↑ WRITERS OF RUSSIA (Materials for a bio-bibliographic dictionary) Compiled by Yu. A. Gorbunov
- ↑ Soviet Nagorno-Karabakh. - Baku, Azerneshr Publishing House. - 1983 .-- 168 s. Archived December 8, 2015 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ REGISTER OF PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS
- ↑ Gordeev V.L. Bury and Remember II. Melekess stories
Bibliography
- KNUNYANTS-RIZEL Farandzem Mirzadzhanovna “Pages of my life” // “Proceedings of the Institute of Party History under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia”. 1976. No. 4. P. 245-260. - Bibliography of works by F. M. Knunyants-Riesel.
See also
- Rusov A.E. Three apples: a novel about F. Knunyants. - M.: Sov. writer, 1977 .-- 447 p.
- Sargsyan A.E. Armenians - military scientists, designers, manufacturers and testers of the 20th century. T.3. - Yerevan: “Amaras”, 2005, 388 p. - ISBN 99930-1-068-5
- Armenian Encyclopedia of Hayazg Foundation