Alexander Myasnikyan

Alexander Fyodorovich Myasnikov ( born Alexander Mjasnikjan; Armenian Ալեքսանդր Մյասնիկյան; Russian Александр Фёдорович Мясников; 28 Januarjul / February 9 1886greg in Nakhichevan -on-Don, .. † March 22, 1925 in Tbilisi ) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary Armenian descent.

Life and career

Alexander Myasnikov was when Alexander Mjasnikjan born in an Armenian merchant family in Nakhichevan -on-Don, the Armenian district of Rostov-on- Don, 1886. As a young man he Russified his Armenian surname of Mjasnikjan to Myasnikov and went to Moscow in 1903 to study there. He first attended the workshop for Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages ​​, a center of the Armenian diaspora in Moscow. But then he moved to the State University and enrolled in law school. He graduated in 1912 successfully. In 1906 he joined there permanently the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia, the forerunner of the later Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Because of his political activities Myasnikov 1906 times reported to Baku. From 1912 to 1914 he worked in a law firm in Moscow. Subsequently, he served in the Russian army and was involved from 1914 to 1917 and the First World War. After the Russian Revolution of February 1917, he slept with the battle name Martuni and devoted himself entirely to politics. As a former soldier in the Russian western front, he was then staying in Minsk where she started yet in 1917 with the publication of a Bolshevik newspaper, Zvezda.

At the turn of 1918/1919 he finally was short as first secretary of the newly created White Russian Soviet Republic. In this position, he advocated an integration of Belarus into Russia. Belarus, however, was assembled in the same year with the Lithuanian Soviet Republic to a short-lived common constituent republic within the Soviet Union. Myasnikov was replaced by the Lithuanians Winzas Mizkjawitschjus - Kapsukas.

In September 1919 Myasnikov was injured in an attack of an anarchist group in Moscow. He served as People's Commissar for Military Affairs in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1921. When this was converted into the Transcaucasian Soviet Republic of Georgia and Azerbaijan, he also held in this new entity again a leading position. Besides being a politician he also wrote some works on Marxism -Leninism, as he devoted himself to Armenian literature and also wrote theater reviews. At the same time he became a member of the overall Soviet Council of People's Commissars. In 1925, he died in a plane crash near Tbilisi.