Alexander Bekzadyan
Alexander Harutyuni Bekzadyan (Armenian: Ալեքսանդր Բեկզադյան; 1879, Shusha, Russian Empire - 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet statesman of Armenian descent.[1]
He studied at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute and Zurich University (1911). He was arrested in Russia as a Bolshevik party Baku and Transcaucasia Committees member, escaped in 1906. Bekzadyan participated in different Russian Social Democratic Labour Party conferences in Europe and Russia. In 1920-21 deputy chairman of the and then People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of Soviet Armenia.
From 1926 to 1930 deputy chairman of Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Republic government and People's Commissar of Trade. Bekzadyan was the Ambassador of USSR in Norway (1930-1934), and then Hungary (1934–37).
On November 21, 1937, he was arrested and on charges of counter-revolutionary activities and was sentenced to death by the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court. On August 1, 1938, the sentence was carried out at the Kommunarka shooting ground. Bekzadyan was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.
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