Mirza Davud Baghir oghlu Huseynov ( az, Мирзә Давуд Һүсејнов, italic=no, Mirzə Davud Bağır oğlu Hüseynov; Russian: ), also spelled Husseynov or Huseinov (March 1894 – March 21, 1938), was an

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revolutionary and statesman.

Early life

Huseynov was born in a religious family in March 1894 in

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. Having studied at a local school from 1904 until 1913, he moved to

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to study economics at the Institute of Commerce. In May 1917, he returned to Baku and was stationed in Agdash to work in the Refugee Committee of

and

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governorates. In October, 1918, he went back to Baku and established a student revolutionary committee. In 1920, he married Tamara Khoyskaya (1902—1990), daughter of the Prime Minister of the deposed

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government Fatali Khan Khoyski.

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Wife of the Prime Minister
. ''Zerkalo''. 21 May 2011.

Political career

In March 1919, Huseynov was one of the leaders of

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Party and later was elected its chairman. After the establishment of

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, Huseynov became the Chairman of the Provisional

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from April 28, 1920, to May 16 of the same year. Then he was deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Committee, National Commissar of Finance, and National Commissar of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan from May 1921 until December 1921. From 1921, he was simultaneously National Commissar of Finance, National Commissar of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan SSR and deputy chairman of the National Commissar Council of

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. In 1922, Huseynov served as the deputy

People's Commissariat of Nationalities The People's Commissariat of Nationalities of the RSFSR (, ''Narodny komissariat po delam natsional'nostey RSFSR''), abbreviated NKNats () or Narkomnats (), an organisation functioning from 1917 to 1924 in the early Soviet period of Russian and So ...

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. From January 1923 until November 1929, he was the deputy chairman

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and served as People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs and People's Commissar of Finance of Azerbaijan SSR in 1925. From 1930 to November 3, 1933, Mirza Davud was the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan. From 1934 to 1937, he was administrator of the Non-Russian Schooling Department of the National Commissariat for Education of

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. During the

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, Mirza Davud was arrested, accused of plotting against the Soviet state, sentenced to death and executed on March 21, 1938. He was rehabilitated posthumously during

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Works

Huseynov authored two books during his career: ''

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in the past and present'', published in 1920 and ''Main points of progress of

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''.

References

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