Alexander Bekzadyan | |
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Ալեքսանդր Բեկզադյան | |
Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Hungary | |
In office 17 November 1934 – 20 November 1937 | |
Preceded by | Adolf Petrovsky |
Succeeded by | Victor Plotnikov |
Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Norway | |
In office 30 October 1930 – 17 November 1934 | |
Preceded by | Alexandra Kollontay |
Succeeded by | Ignaty Yakubovich |
People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the Armenian SSR | |
In office 29 November 1920 – 1 May 1921 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Askanaz Mravyan |
Personal details | |
Born | Shushi, Elizavetpol Governorate, Russian Empire | 15 September 1879
Died | 1 August 1938 Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR | (aged 58)
Alexander Artemyevich Bekzadyan (Russian: Александр Артемьевич Бекзадян; Armenian: Ալեքսանդր Հարությունի Բեկզադյան, romanized: Alexander Harutyuni Bekzadyan; 15 September 1879 – 1 August 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet statesman of Armenian descent.[1] After serving as Soviet ambassador to Norway and Hungary he was murdered during the Great Purge.