Meyer Basin

Meyer Velkovich Basin (8 June 1890 – 20 September 1918) was a member of the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Caucasian Army. One of the

26 Baku Commissars The 26 Baku Commissars were Bolshevik and Left Socialist Revolutionary (SR) members of the Baku Commune. The commune was established in the city of Baku, which was then the capital of the briefly independent Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, and ...

who were Bolshevik and Left Socialist-Revolutionaries members of the

Baku Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...

Soviet Commune that was established in the city of Baku after the October Revolution. The commune was led by

Stepan Shahumyan Stepan Georgevich Shaumian (; , ''Step’an Ge'vorgi Shahumyan''; 1 October 1878 – 20 September 1918) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician active throughout the Caucasus. Arzumanyan, M. Շահումյան, Ստեփան Գևորգի. ...

until 26 July 1918 when the Bolsheviks were forced out of power by a coalition of Dashnaks,

Right Socialist-Revolutionaries The Socialist Revolutionary Party, or the Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries (the SRs, , or Esers, russian: эсеры, translit=esery, label=none; russian: Партия социалистов-революционеров, ), was a major politi ...

and

Menshevik The Mensheviks (russian: меньшевики́, from меньшинство 'minority') were one of the three dominant factions in the Russian socialist movement, the others being the Bolsheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries. The factions eme ...

s. After the overthrow, the Baku commissars attempted to escape but were captured by the White Army and placed in a Baku prison. On 14 September Red Army soldiers broke into the prison and freed the commissars who then boarded a ship to Krasnovodsk, where they were promptly arrested, and on the night of 20 September 1918 executed by a firing squad between the stations of Pereval and Akhcha-Kuyma of the Transcaspian Railway. On 28 August 1918, while under arrest, he was elected to the council of Baku as a representative of the Bolshevik party. {{DEFAULTSORT:Basin, Meyer 1890 births 1918 deaths Jews from the Russian Empire Belarusian Jews Belarusian communists Executed politicians Bolsheviks People from Cherykaw Articles containing video clips