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Shusha

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, Russian Empire

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 - 1938) was a Soviet statesman of Armenia

Armenia

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n descent.

He studied at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute

Kiev Polytechnic Institute

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 and Zurich University (1911). He was arrested in Russia

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 as a Communist party Baku and Transcaucasia Committees member, escaped in 1906. Bekzadyan participated in different social-democratic and communist conferences in Europe

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 and Russia. In 1920-21 deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Armenia, Minister of Foreign affairs of Soviet Armenia. In 1926-30 deputy chairman of Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Republic government and Minister of Trade. In 1930-34 Bekzadyan was the Ambassador of USSR in Norwege, in 1934-37 - in Hungary. A victim of stalinism

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