Prokofy "Alyosha" Dzhaparidze
Прокофий "Алёша" Джапаридзе (in Russian)
პროკოფი ჯაფარიძე (in Georgian)
Alyoşa Caparidze (in Azerbaijani) | |
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 Bolshevik revolutionary Prokofy Dzaparidze | |
| Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Baku Commune | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 15, 1880 Racha, Russian Georgia |
| Died | September 20, 1918 (aged 38) Krasnovodsk, Turkmenistan |
| Political party | RSDLP (1898–1903) RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918) |
| Residence(s) | Baku, Azerbaijan |
| Occupation | Politician, revolutionary |
Prokofy "Alyosha" Aprasionovich Dzhaparidze or Japaridze, (Georgian: პროკოფი აფრასიონის ძე ჯაფარიძე, Russian: Прокофий Апрасионович Джапаридзе; 15 January 1880 – 20 September 1918), was a Bolshevik revolutionary of Georgian origin. He was one of the leaders of the Red Army and the Bolshevik Party in Azerbaijan during the Russian Revolution.
Dzhaparidze joined Bolsheviks in 1898 where he earned the nickname Alyosha, then moved to Baku. Helping the founding of the Azerbaijani socialist party Hummet, he became Delegate of the Caucasian Union of the RSDLP at the 3rd Congress of the RSDLP in London. He was arrested or exiled many times for his anti-tsarist activities in Russian Empire.
After the February Revolution, he became a member of the Caucasian Regional Committee, and became one of the 26 leaders or commissars of the joined the Baku Commune. He took several different positions in the commune. Dzhaparidze, along with Stepan Shaumian, Mashadi Azizbekov, Ivan Fioletov and other commissars tried to spread the communist ideology throughout the whole Caucasus. Soon after the fall of the commune, on the night of September 20, he was executed by firing squad in a remote location between the stations of Pereval and Akhcha-Kuyma on the Trans-Caspian railway along with other Commissars.
Dzhaparidze was one of the main four commissars who gained a notable status in Soviet Union as a fallen hero of Russian Revolution. A street in Sochi (Russia) is still named after him and he has a small bust in Moscow. His monument in Baku, capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan was demolished in 2009.