EFENDIYEV Sultan Majid

Efendiev Sultan Majid (26.5.1887, Shemaxa - 21.4.1938), statesman. Son Deli. Educated at the medical faculty of Kazan University (1915). In 1904 was one of the organizers of the Bolshevik Social-Democratic organization "Gummet". Since 1915 worked as doctor. In 1917, a member of the Baku Committee of the Board and "Gummet and RSDLP (b). Since 1919, the Commissioner for the Muslims of Transcaucasia with the People's Commissariat of Nationalities of the RSFSR, the deputy. prev. Central Office for the Eastern peoples of the CC, RCP (B.). In 1920-21 a member of the Baku Soviet and Extraordinary Plenipotentiary of the CC CP (b) of Azerbaijan and the Commissioner of Ganja province. Supervised the brutal suppression of the uprising in Ganja. In the 1921-24 People's Commissar of Workers and Peasants' Inspection, agriculture AzSSR. In 1924 before. CCC, CP (b) of Azerbaijan and a member of the CCC, CPSU (b). Since 1927 Deputy. prev., in 1931 before. CEC of the Azerbaijan SSR, and one of the chairmen of the CEC of the USSR. In 1938, arrested. Sentenced to death. Shot. He was posthumously rehabilitated.