Nariman Narimanov

Nariman Narimanov
Nəriman Nərimanov
Narimanov in 1913
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan SSR
In office May 1920 – 2 May 1921[1]
President	Grigory Kaminsky (First Secretary of Azerbaijan Communist Party)
Preceded by	Fatali Khan Khoyski (ADR)
Succeeded by	Mirza Davud Huseynov
Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars
In office May 1921 – April 1922
Preceded by	Office created
Succeeded by	Gazanfar Musabekov
Personal details
Born	14 April [O.S. 2 April] 1870 Tiflis, Russian Empire
Died	19 March 1925(1925-03-19) (aged 54) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting place	Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow
Political party	RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1905–1918) CPSU (1918–1925)
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Nariman Karbalayi Najaf oghlu Narimanov (Azerbaijani: Nəriman Kərbəlayi Nəcəf oğlu Nərimanov, Russian: Нарима́н Кербелаи Наджа́ф оглы Нарима́нов; 14 April [O.S. 2 April] 1870 – 19 March 1925) 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 30 December 1922 until the day of his death.

In the realm of literature, Narimanov translated into Turkic Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector and wrote many plays, stories and novels, such as Bahadur and Sona (1896). He was also the author of the historical trilogy, Nadir-Shah (1899).

One of the central districts and one of the busiest metro stations in Baku, together with a number of streets, parks and halls all over Azerbaijan, as well as Azerbaijan Medical University, are named after him. In the Lankaran region, there is a town named Narimanabad in his honor. There are also towns named after him in other post-Soviet states, mainly in Russia.