Mirza Davud Huseynov

Mirza Davud Baghir oglu Huseynov (Azeri: Mirzə Davud Hüseynov; Russian: Мирза Давуд Гусейнов), also spelled Husseynov or Guseynov (March 1894 – March 21, 1938), was an Azerbaijani revolutionary and statesman.

Mirza Davud Huseynov Mirzə Davud Hüseynov
Huseynov (right) in 1920
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan SSR
In office May, 1921 – December, 1921
President	Grigory Kaminsky (First Secretary of Azerbaijan Communist Party)
Preceded by	Nariman Narimanov
Succeeded by	Mahmud Aliyev
People's Commissar of Finance of Azerbaijan SSR
In office 1925–1925
Preceded by	Mirzabekyan
Succeeded by	A. Ibrahimov[1]
Personal details
Born	March 1894 Baku, Baku Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	March 21, 1938(1938-03-21) (aged 43–44) Baku, Azerbaijani SSR, USSR

Early life

Huseynov was born in a religious family in March 1894 in Baku. Having studied at a local school from 1904 until 1913, he moved to Moscow 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 Baku and Ganja governorates. In October, 1918, he went back to Baku and established a student revolutionary committee.[2] In 1920, he married Tamara Khoyskaya (1902—1990), daughter of the Prime Minister of the deposed Azerbaijan Democratic Republic government Fatali Khan Khoyski.[3]

Political career

In March 1919, Huseynov was one of the leaders of Hummet Party and later was elected its chairman. After the establishment of Azerbaijan SSR, Huseynov became the Chairman of the Provisional Military-Revolutionary Committee 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 Transcaucasian SFSR.[4] In 1922, Huseynov served as the deputy People's Commissariat of Nationalities of RSFSR. From January 1923 until November 1929, he was the deputy chairman People's Commissariat of Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and served as People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs and People's Commissar of Finance of Azerbaijan SSR in 1925.[1][2]

From 1930 to November 3, 1933, Mirza Davud was the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan.[5] From 1934 to 1937, he was administrator of the Non-Russian Schooling Department of the National Commissariat for Education of Russian SFSR. During the Great Purge, 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 destalinization.

Works

Huseynov authored two books during his career: Musavat in the past and present, published in 1920 and Main points of progress of Azerbaijan Communist Party.[4]

See also

• Azerbaijan Communist Party
• Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan
• First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan

References

1. "Ministry of Finance of Republic of Azerbaijan. History of the ministry". Archived from the original on 2010-11-24. Retrieved 2010-11-08.
2. "Presidential Library. Mirza Davud Huseynov" (PDF). p. 73. Retrieved 2010-07-09.
3. Vilayat Guliyev. Wife of the Prime Minister Archived 2011-05-31 at the Wayback Machine. Zerkalo. 21 May 2011.
4. "Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan. Mirza Davud Huseynov". Retrieved 2010-07-09.
5. Neimatullo Safarov, Victor Novikov (2000). "Leaders of Tajikistan in XX-th century (1924 – 2000)". UNEP/GRID. Archived from the original on 2006-08-22. Retrieved 2006-08-11.