Gazanfar Musabekov

Gazanfar Musabekov
غضنفر موسی‌بگوف
Газанфар Мусабеков
Musabekov in 1935
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Azerbaijan SSR
In office
1929–1931
First SecretaryNikolai Gikalo
Preceded byNariman Narimanov
Succeeded byDadash Bunyadzade
Personal details
Born(1888-07-26)26 July 1888
Pirəbədil, Caucasus Viceroyalty
Died9 February 1938(1938-02-09) (aged 49)
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
PartyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union
Alma materSaint Vladimir University

Gazanfar Mahmud oghlu Musabeyov or Musabekov (Azerbaijani: غضنفر محمود اوغلی موسی‌بگوف, Qəzənfər Mahmud oğlu Musabəyov, 26 July [O.S. 14 July] 1888 – 9 February 1938) was an Azerbaijani Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician. He was Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Azerbaijan SSR from 1929 to 1931, and he headed the government of the Transcaucasian SFSR from 1931 to 1936. During the Great Purge, Musabekov was arrested (June 1937), accused of plotting against the Soviet state, sentenced to death and executed by a firing squad on 9 February 1938, after his mother. His sister Ayna Sultanova and brother-in-law Hamid Sultanov, both high ranking Azerbaijani Bolshevik revolutionaries and politicians, were also executed in 1938.

An Azerbaijani cargo ship is named after him.

References

  • "Biography of Musabekov, Gazanfar". Archontology. Archived from the original on 2024-03-02. Retrieved 2025-04-01.