Yakov Zevin

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Yakov Zevin in the 1910s

Yakov Davidovich Zevin (

Mahilyow Voblast, Belarus.[2] He became a member of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
in 1904 and he was arrested several times for conducting revolutionary activities.

Mugshot of Yakov Zevin

He was a delegate in the 6th (

Bolshevik positions. In 1915 he was a member of the Baku committee of Bolsheviks. After the February Revolution of 1917 he worked in the Moscow council of working deputies. Zevin became one of the 26 Baku Commissars (he was the Commissar of Labor) of the Soviet Commune that was established in the city after the October Revolution
.

Funeral of 26 Baku Commissars in 1920 (crying women are mother of the Mir Hasan Vezirov).

When the Commune was toppled by the

firing squad between the stations of Pereval and Akhcha-Kuyma of Transcaucasian Railroad on September 20, 1918.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Непряхин М. Г. (1968). "Они боролись за Советскую власть". Труды Института истории партии ЦК КП Азербайджана [Works of the Communist party of Azerbaijan history] (in Russian). Vol. 29. Baku. p. 209.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ "Зевин Яков Давидович" [Zevin Yakov Davidovich] (in Russian). Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  3. ^ "Зевин Яков Давидович" [Zevin Yakov Davidovich] (in Russian). Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  4. ^ Mikoian, Anastas Ivanovich, ed. (1988). Memoirs of Anastas Mikoyan: The path of struggle. Sphinx Press. p. 278.