Levon Mirzoyan

Levon Mirzoyan
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR
In office
5 December 1936 – 3 May 1938
Succeeded byNikolay Skvortsov
Secretary of the Kazakh Regional Committee All-Union Communist Party
In office
February 1933 – 5 December 1936
Preceded byFilipp Goloshchyokin
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan SSR
In office
21 January 1926 – 11 July 1929
Preceded byRuhulla Akhundov
Succeeded byNikolai Gikalo
Personal details
Born(1897-11-14)14 November 1897
Ashan Village, Shushi District, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire
Died26 February 1939(1939-02-26) (aged 41)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Cause of deathExecution
Resting placeDonskoye Cemetery
NationalityArmenian
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1917-1938)
Spouse(s)Yulia Tevossian

Levon Isayevich Mirzoyan (Armenian: Լևոն Եսայիի Միրզոյան; Russian: Левон Исаевич Мирзоян; 14 November 1897[1][2] – 26 February 1939) was a Soviet politician who served as the First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party from 1926 to 1929 and the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR from 1936 to 1938. He succeeded Filipp Goloshschyokin during the Kazakh Famine of 1930–1933, also known as the Goloshchyokin Genocide, in which at least 1.3 million Kazakhs peoples died.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Биография - Мирзоян Левон Исаевич". levonmirzoyan.com. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  2. ↑ "First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR Levon Isayevich Mirzoyan". geni.com. 14 November 1897. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  3. ↑ Getty, J. Arch; Manning, Roberta Thompson, eds. (1993). Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives. Cambridge University Press. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-5214-4670-9.
New office First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR
1936 – 1938 		Succeeded by
Nikolay Skvortsov