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Who were the 26 Baku Commissars?

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On 20 September 1918, near Krasnovodsk, 26 Transcaucasian revolutionaries were executed.


• Bagdasar Avakyan — Commandant of the city of Baku.

• Mashadi Azizbeyov — Commissioner of the Baku Governorate.

• Tatevos Amirov — Commander of the cavalry detachment.

• Arsen Amiryan — Editor of the newspaper “Baku Worker”.

• Meer Basin — Member of the Military Revolutionary Committee.

• Eugène Berg — Sailor.

• Anatoly Bogdanov — Serviceman.

• Solomon Bogdanov — Member of the Military Revolutionary Committee.

• Armenak Boryan — Journalist.

• Mir Hasan Vazirov — People’s Commissar for Land Distribution.

• Ivan Gabyshev — Brigade commissar.

• Prokofi Caparidze — Chairman of the Baku Council of Workers’, Peasants’, Soldiers’, and Sailors’ Deputies.

• Yakov Zevin — People’s Commissar for Labor.

• Mark Koganov — Member of the Military Revolutionary Committee.

• Grigori Korganov — Commissar for Naval Affairs of the Baku People’s Committee.

• Aram Kostandyan — Deputy to the People’s Commissar for Food Supply.

• Ivan Malygin — Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Caucasus Army.

• Irakli Metaksa — Stepan Shaumyan’s personal bodyguard.

• Isay Mishne — Worker of the Military Revolutionary Committee.

• Ivan Nikolayishvili — Prokofi Caparidze’s personal bodyguard.

• Suren Osepyan — Editor of the newspaper “News of the Baku Council”.

• Grigori Petrov — Head of the Central Military Authority of Baku, commander of the Red detachment.

• Vladimir Polukhin — Commissar for Naval Affairs.

• Fyodor Solntsev — Military worker.

• Ivan Fioletov — Chairman of the Council of National Economy.

• Stepan Shaumyan — Extraordinary Commissar for the Caucasus, Chairman of the Baku Council of People’s Commissars.


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