Ruben Rubenov

Ruben Rubenov
First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party
In office February 7, 1933 – December 10, 1933
Personal details
Born	1894 (1894) Tbilisi, Georgia
Died	1937 (1938) (aged 43) Butovo firing range, Moscow, Russia
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Ruben Gukasovich Rubenov (Russian: Рубен Гукасович Рубенов, Azerbaijani: Ruben Qukasoviç Rubenov, Armenian: Ռուբեն Ղուկասի Ռուբենով) ; (1894 – November 27, 1937), also known as Ruben Mkrtichyan, was the 6th First Secretary of Azerbaijan Communist Party and revolutionary.

Early years and career

Rubenov was born in 1893 to an Armenian worker's family in Tiflis. In 1914, he joined the Communist Party ranks. Before the Russian revolution of 1917, he was arrested several times for his revolutionary activities in Transcaucasia. On February 7, 1933 he was appointed the First Secretary of Azerbaijan SSR and served until December 10 of the same year when he was replaced by Mir Jafar Baghirov. He was then appointed the Plenipotentiary of the Party Control Committee for the Kiev Oblast of Ukrainian SSR in 1934.

Arrest and execution

On September 15, 1937 he was arrested for "participation in terrorist activities" and sentenced to execution by firing squad by Military Tribunal. He was executed on November 27, 1937 at Butovo firing range. On November 17, 1954 he was posthumously rehabilitated by Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR.

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Party political offices
Preceded by Vladimir Polonsky	First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party 1930–1933	Succeeded by Mir Jafar Baghirov