Avis Nurijanyan

Avis Nurijanyan
People's Commissar for Military Affairs of the Armenian SSR
In office
December 1920 – May 1921
Preceded byposition established
Succeeded byAlexander Miasnikian
People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the Armenian SSR
In office
July 1921 – August 1921
Preceded byPoghos Makintsyan
Succeeded byShavarsh Amirkhanyan
Personal details
Born(1896-12-03)3 December 1896
Vachagan, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire (now Kapan, Armenia)
Died16 September 1938(1938-09-16) (aged 41)
Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Political partyArmenian Revolutionary Federation (1917–1918)
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1918–1927, 1929–1937/8)

Avis (Avetis) Soghomoni Nurijanyan (Armenian: Ավիս Սողոմոնի Նուրիջանյան; 3 December 1896 – 16 September 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician of Armenian origin who served as the People's Commissar for Military Affairs of the Armenian SSR from 1920 to 1921 and People's Commissar for Internal Affairs in 1921. He is infamous for his role in carrying out mass repressions immediately following the Sovietization of Armenia.[1]

  1. ^ Hakobyan, Tatul (2017-09-14). "Կասյանից՝ Ավիս. հայ բոլշևիկները". CIVILNET (in Armenian). Retrieved 2022-06-27.