Gavriil Filippovich Beljagin (also went by Gabriel;

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: Гавриил Филиппович Белягин; 22 April 1870 – 9 August 1936) was a Russian-Estonian politician who was the deputy mayor of Reval (now

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) from April 1917 to September of that year. He was the city's commissioner until he was selected by then mayor Jaan Poska to serve as deputy mayor in April 1917, when Poska went on to become the commissar of the Autonomous Governorate of Estonia. Beljagin oversaw the establishment of Estonian as the official language of Reval. He resigned just before the

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and the start of the

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in late 1917. He was succeeded by

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as the chairman of city government. He later died on 9 August 1936 and is buried at Siselinna Cemetery.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Beljagin, Gavriil 1870 births 1936 deaths Politicians from Tallinn People from the Governorate of Estonia Estonian people of Russian descent Mayors of Tallinn People from the Russian Empire

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