Gazanfar Musabekov

Gazanfar Musabekov
Qəzənfər Musabəyov
Musabekov in 1935
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Azerbaijan SSR
In office
1929–1931
General SecretaryJoseph Stalin
Personal details
Born26 July [O.S. 14 July] 1888
Pirəbədil, Perebidil, Baku Governorate
Died9 February 1938(1938-02-09) (aged 49)
NKVD Prison, Tbilisi, Soviet Union
CitizenshipSoviet
NationalityAzerbaijani
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union
Alma materSaint Vladimir University

Gazanfar Mahmud oghlu Musabeyov or Musabekov (Azerbaijani: غضنفر محمود اوغلی موسی‌بگوف, Qəzənfər Mahmud oğlu Musabəyov, 26 July [O.S. 14 July] 1888 – 9 February 1938) was an Azerbaijani Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet statesman. He was Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Azerbaijan SSR from 1929 to 1931, and he headed the government of the Transcaucasian SFSR from 1931 to 1936. During the Great Purge, Musabekov was arrested (June 1937), accused of plotting against the Soviet state, sentenced to death and executed on 9 February 1938, after his mother. His sister Ayna Sultanova and brother-in-law Hamid Sultanov, both high ranking Azerbaijani Bolshevik revolutionaries and politicians, were also executed in 1938.

Musabekov with Stalin during a speech of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union in December 1928.

An Azerbaijani cargo ship is named after him.