Nariman Narimanov

Narimanov Nariman Karbalayi Najaf oglu was an Azerbaijani Bolshevik revolutionary, writer, publicist, politician, and statesman. For just over one year beginning in May 1920, Narimanov headed the government of Soviet Azerbaijan. He was subsequently elected chairman of the Union Council of the Transcaucasian SFSR. He was also Party Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union from December 30, 1922, until the day of his death.

Nariman Narimanov was born on April, 1870 in Tiflis, Georgia, then part of the Russian empire into an ethnic Azerbaijani family. The Narimanov family were middleclass merchants and were able to send their son to the Gori Teachers Seminary, from which he graduated. He went on to attend medical school at Odessa University, graduating in 1908.

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