Bekzadyan, Alexander Artemievich

Alexander Bekzadyan was born in 1879 in the family of a court counselor . He studied at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute .

• Since 1901, participated in the activities of social democratic organizations.
• In 1903 he joined the RSDLP . After the split, the RSDLP joined the Bolsheviks , was engaged in propaganda work.
• At the end of 1905 he was arrested for campaigning on military trains and escaped from prison.
• In 1906 - 1914 he lived in Switzerland , graduated from the University of Zurich (1911). Doctor of Law (1913, University of Zurich). Theme of the dissertation: “Agent provocateur - with a special consideration of the issue of political provocation in Russia” (Der Agent-Provocateur (Lockspitzel) mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der politischen Provocation in Russland).
• A participant in the Paris meeting of the Bolsheviks (1911), at which he was elected a candidate member of the Committee of the Foreign Organization of the Bolsheviks (KZO).
• Member of the Basel Congress of the 2nd International (1912).
• The delegate of the RSDLP at the congress of the German Social Democratic Party in Jena (September 1913).
• In 1914 he returned to Russia. He led party work in the Caucasus .
• After the February Revolution, he worked in Baku , then in the North Caucasus. In 1919-1920, a member of the Zakraikom committee of the RCP (b).
• In 1920 - 1921, Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee and People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of Soviet Armenia .
• Delegate of the 10th Congress of the RCP (B.) (1921). In 1922, a member of the Soviet delegation at the Genoese Conference .
• In 1922 - 1926 he worked in the trade mission of the USSR in Germany .
• In 1926-1930, deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and People's Commissar of Trade of the USSR
• In 1930 - 1934, the plenipotentiary of the USSR in Norway , in 1934 - 1937 - in Hungary .
• He was arrested on November 21, 1937 and sentenced to death by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on charges of counter-revolutionary activity.
• On August 1, 1938, the verdict was carried out at the Kommunarka firing range ^[3] .
• In 1956 he was posthumously rehabilitated.
• On May 24, 2015, in Moscow, on the facade of house 16 on Staropimenovsky Lane , the memorial sign “ Last Address ” by Alexander Artemievich Bekzadyan was installed ^[4] .

• Special message to N. I. Ezhov, I. V. Stalin on the statement of the arrested I. D. Ovsyannikov