Sultan Majid Afandiyev

Sultan Majid Afandiyev, also spelled Efendiyev (Azeri: "Sultan Məcid Əfəndiyev") (May 26, 1887, Shemakha – April 21, 1938, Baku) was an Azerbaijani revolutionary and statesman, one of the founders of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan.

Life

Son of a vendor, he participated in the revolutionary movement of Azerbaijan since 1902. In 1904, Afandiyev was one of the organizers of Hummet party and took active part in the 1905 Revolution. In 1915 he graduated from Medicine Department of Kazan State University receiving a qualification of physician.

After the February Revolution of 1917, he became a member of Baku Council, Hummet Committee, and RSDLP(b) Committee. He then took part in the Astrakhan defense and received many commissions and from 1918 to 1931 he received many encharges: Commissar on the Transcaucasian Muslims' affairs of the People's Commissariat of Nationalities of RSFSR, deputy chairman of the Central Bureau of Communist Organization of Orient Peoples of the Central Committee of RKP(b) (Russian Communist Party of Bolsheviks), 1920-1921, member of the Executive Committee of Baku Council, Extraordinary Commissioner of the Central Committee of Azerbaijani KP(b), Commissar of Ganja Province ( he commanded the suppression of anti-Bolshevik rebellion in Ganja ), member of the Central Executive Committee, People's Commissar of Lands, People's Commissar of Revolutionary Commissariat of Azerbaijan SSR, member of Central Committee of VKP(b) (All-Union Communist Party of the Bolsheviks ), member of Transcaucasian Regional Committee of VKP(b), Bureau of the Central Committee of Azerbaijani KP(b), member of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, deputy chairman and since 1931 the chairman of the Central Executive Committee of Azerbaijani SSR and one of the chairmen of the Central Executive Committee of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

During the Great Purge, Afandiyev was arrested, accused of plotting against the Soviet state, sentenced to death and executed on April 21, 1938. He was exonerated posthumously.

References

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