Amatuni Simoni Amatuni ( hy, Ամատունի Սիմոնի Ամատունի), born Amatuni Vardapetyan (), was a Soviet Armenian politician who served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1936 to 1937. Born in Yelisavetpol (

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Elizavetpol uezd The Elizavetpol uezd, also known as the Ganja uezd after 1918, was a county (''uezd'') of the Elizavetpol Governorate of the Russian Empire, and later of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and Azerbaijan SSR until its formal abolition in 1929. The ...

Elizavetpol Governorate The Elizavetpol Governorate, also known after 1918 as the Ganja Governorate, was a province ('' guberniya'') of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Yelisavetpol (present-day Ganja). The area of the governorate st ...

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, he became a member of the

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in 1919. From 1926 to 1928 he studied at the

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, then held various party positions in

Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Y ...

Tiflis Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million pe ...

, and

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. An ally of

Lavrentiy Beria Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (; rus, Лавре́нтий Па́влович Бе́рия, Lavréntiy Pávlovich Bériya, p=ˈbʲerʲiə; ka, ლავრენტი ბერია, tr, ; – 23 December 1953) was a Georgian Bolshevik ...

, he served as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1935 to 1936, then became First Secretary in 1936 after the death of his predecessor

Aghasi Khanjian Aghasi Ghevondi Khanjian ( hy, Աղասի Ղևոնդի Խանջյան; russian: Агаси Гевондович Ханджян, ''Agasi Gevondovich Khandzhyan'') (January 30, 1901 – July 9, 1936) was First Secretary of the Communist Party ...

. With Armenian

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

chief Khachik Mughdusi, Amatuni oversaw the initial part of the

Great Purge The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Nikolay Yezhov, Yezhov'), was General ...

in Armenia, before his own arrest on September 23, 1937. He appeared on Stalin's execution list of July 26, 1938 and was shot the same day.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vartapetyan, Amatuni Party leaders of the Soviet Union First Secretaries of the Armenian Communist Party Great Purge victims from Armenia Institute of Red Professors alumni People from Elizavetpol Governorate Politicians from Ganja, Azerbaijan 1900 births 1938 deaths Members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union executed by the Soviet Union