Fayzulla Khodzhayev

Fayzulla Ubaydullayevich Xojayev (Cyrillic Файзулла Убайдуллаевич Хўжаев; Russian Файзулла Убайдуллаевич / Губайдуллаевич Ходжаев Fajsulla Ubajdullajewitsch Chodschajew; persian فیضالله خواجه, DMG Faizullah Ḫwāǧa, also Khodzhayev and Khojaev or Chodscha / Khoja; * 1896 in Bukhara, † March 13, 1938 in Moscow ) was an Uzbek politician.

Life

Fayzulla Xojayev was born into the family of a rich merchant in Bukhara. He received his basic training at a maktab, spent two years studying at a madrasah in Bukhara and learned from 1907 for five years in Moscow. After the death of his father in 1912 he returned back to Bukhara. Even before the October Revolution, he joined the movement of Jadidism and was one of the founding figures of the secret organization of the Young Bukhara. This group invited as a result of the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks of the Tashkent Soviet, to occupy Bukhara. This plan, however, remained without success, Xojayev had to flee Russia to Tashkent and could not return until after the escape of the Emir of Bukhara (1920). 1920 and 1922, he was awarded the Red Banner.

Xojayev was appointed leader of the People's Republic of Bukhara, but narrowly escaped an assassination attempt of Basmachis leader Enver Pasha. Xojayev tried to establish business relations with Europe. In 1923 he took over as deputy of the People's Republic of Bukhara at the XII. Congress of the RCP part in Moscow. After the territorial reorganization of Central Asia was Xojayev Chairman of the Council of People 's Commissars of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and finally President of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR.

Afterlife

1966, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Xojayev was officially rehabilitated. In today's Uzbekistan few monuments commemorate his work, a Metro Tashkent bears his name.