Stepan Shahumyan
Stepan Shahumyan | |
|---|---|
| Commissar Extraordinary for the Caucasus | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 October 1878 Tiflis, Georgie |
| Dee'd | 20 September 1918 (aged 39) Krasnovodsk, Soviet Roushie |
| Poleetical pairty | Communist Pairty o the Soviet Union |
| Bairns | Three |
| Residence | Baku, Azerbaijan |
| Thrift | Politeecian, revolutionary |
Stepan Gevorgi Shahumyan (Armenie: Ստեփան Գեւորգի Շահումյան; Roushie: Степан Георгиевич Шаумян, Stepan Georgevich Shaumyan; 1 October 1878 – 20 September 1918) wis a Bolshevist Roushie communist politeecian an revolutionary active throughoot the Caucasus.[1] Shahumyan wis an ethnic Armenie an his role as a leader o the Roushie revolution in the Caucasus earned him the elk-name o the "Caucasian Lenin", a reference tae the leader o the Roushie Revolution, Vladimir Lenin.[2]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ (in Armenie) Arzumanyan, M. Շահումյան, Ստեփան Գևորգի. The Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia. Yerevan, Armenian SSR, vol. viii, 1982 pp. 431-434
- ↑ Panossian, Razmik. The Armenians: From Kings And Priests to Merchants And Commissars. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006 p. 211 ISBN 0-231-13926-8