Nicholas AdontzW
Nicholas Adontz

Nicholas Adontz was an Armenian historian, specialist of Byzantine and Armenian studies, and philologist. Adontz was the author of Armenia in the Period of Justinian, a highly influential work and landmark study on the social and political structures of early Medieval Armenia.

Ahmet AğaoğluW
Ahmet Ağaoğlu

Ahmet Ağaoğlu, also known as Ahmet Bey Ağayev, was a prominent Azerbaijani and naturalized Turkish politician, publicist and journalist. He was one of the founders of Pan-Turkism.

Freidun AghalyanW
Freidun Aghalyan

Freidun Aghalyan was an Armenian architect.

Hasan bey AghayevW
Hasan bey Aghayev

Hasan Mashadi Huseyn oghlu Aghayev, known also as Hasan bey Aghayev and Hasan Aghazada was an Azerbaijani public figure, journalist, doctor, teacher and politician. He served as the Deputy Speaker of National Assembly of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR).

Ahmed AgdamskiW
Ahmed Agdamski

Ahmed Agdamski also known by the stage name of Ahmed Bashir oglu Badalbeyli who was an Azerbaijani opera singer, mugam singer and actor.

Abram AlikhanovW
Abram Alikhanov

Abram Isaakovich Alikhanov was a Soviet Armenian experimental physicist who specialized in particle and nuclear physics. He was one of the Soviet Union's leading physicists.

Museyib AllahverdiyevW
Museyib Allahverdiyev

Museyib Abdulla oglu Allahverdiyev was an Azerbaijani Red Army major and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Allahverdiyev was awarded the title for his leadership of his battalion during the Budapest Offensive. During the offensive, the battalion was reported to have destroyed 25 German tanks, killed up to 1200 soldiers, and captured 2200. Allahverdiyev left the army after the end of the war.

Hamazasp BabadzhanianW
Hamazasp Babadzhanian

Hamazasp Khachaturi Babadzhanian was a Soviet Armenian Chief marshal of the armored troops. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1944.

Ivan BagramyanW
Ivan Bagramyan

Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan, also known as Hovhannes Khachaturi Baghramyan, was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union of Armenian origin. During World War II, Bagramyan was the second non-Slavic military officer, after Latvian Max Reyter, to become a commander of a Front. He was among several Armenians in the Soviet Army who held the highest proportion of high-ranking officers in the Soviet military during the war.

Basti BagirovaW
Basti Bagirova

Basti Masim gizi Bagirova was an Azerbaijani cotton grower and politician. She is known as one of the first Stakhanovites in the Azerbaijan SSR.

Alexander BekzadyanW
Alexander Bekzadyan

Alexander Harutyuni Bekzadyan was a Soviet statesman of Armenian descent.

Yusif Vazir ChamanzaminliW
Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli

Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli, also spelled Chemenzeminli, born Yusif Mirbaba oghlu Vazirov was an Azerbaijani statesman and writer known for his novels, short stories, essays, and diaries. Evidence points to the fact that Chamanzaminli was the primary core author of the famous romance novel Ali and Nino first published in 1937 in Austria under the pen-name of Kurban Said.

Pavel FlorenskyW
Pavel Florensky

Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath and neomartyr.

Abdurrahim bey HagverdiyevW
Abdurrahim bey Hagverdiyev

Abdurrahim bey Asad bey oglu Hagverdiyev was an Azerbaijani playwright, writer and cultural figure, stage director, politician, public figure, one of the 5 thirst Azeri Deputats of First Duma of Russia Empire, Deputat of Georgian Parliament, Creator Theatrical Writers Society in Azerbaijan, one of the redactors jornal “Molla Nasreddin”, Ambassador Azerbaijan in Dagestan and Armenia.

Uzeyir HajibeyovW
Uzeyir Hajibeyov

Uzeyir bey Abdul Huseyn oglu Hajibeyov was an Azerbaijani composer, conductor, publicist, playwright, and social figure. He is recognized as the father of Azerbaijani composed classical music and opera. Uzeyir Hajibeyov composed the music of the national anthem of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. He also composed the anthem used by Azerbaijan during the Soviet period. He was the first composer of an opera in the Islamic world.

Karo HalabyanW
Karo Halabyan

Karo Semyonovich Halabyan was a Soviet Armenian architect. He was Honoured promoter of the Art of Armenian SSR (1940).

Ashot HovhannisyanW
Ashot Hovhannisyan

Ashot Garegini Hovhannisyan (Ioannisyan) was a Soviet Armenian statesman, historian, academic of Science Academy of Armenia (1960). From 1922 to 1926 he was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia.

Adil IsgandarovW
Adil Isgandarov

Adil Rza bey oglu Isgandarov was an Azerbaijani theatre and film director, actor, first People's Artist of the USSR from Transcaucasia.

Sarkis KasyanW
Sarkis Kasyan

Sarkis Hovhannesi Kasyan or Kasian was a Soviet Armenian statesman, politician and journalist.

Gevork KotiantzW
Gevork Kotiantz

Gevork Vartanovich Kotiantz was a Soviet, Russian - Armenian painter, who lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.

Khudadat bey Malik-AslanovW
Khudadat bey Malik-Aslanov

Khudadat bey Aghabey oglu Malik-Aslanov was an Azerbaijani politician and university professor.

Anastas MikoyanW
Anastas Mikoyan

Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan was an Armenian Communist revolutionary, Old Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the mandates of Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev. He was the only Soviet politician who managed to remain at the highest levels of power within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, as that power oscillated between the Central Committee and the Politburo, from the latter days of Lenin's rule, throughout the eras of Stalin and Khrushchev, until his peaceful retirement after the first months of Brezhnev's rule.

Levon MirzoyanW
Levon Mirzoyan

Levon Isayevich Mirzoyan was the Secretary of the Communist Party of the Azeri SSR from January 21, 1926 to August 5, 1929 and the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR from December 5, 1936 to May 3, 1938. He was executed during the Great Purge.

Khudadat RafibeyliW
Khudadat Rafibeyli

Khudadat bey Rafibeyli, also known as Khudadat Rafibeyov, was an Azerbaijani statesman who served as Governor General of Ganja Governorate and Minister of Healthcare of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, and was also the member of Azerbaijani National Council and later Parliament of Azerbaijan. He was the father of Azerbaijani writer Nigar Rafibeyli, father-in-law of Rasul Rza and grandfather of Anar Rzayev, chairman of Writers' Union of Azerbaijan.

Vartan SarkisovW
Vartan Sarkisov

Vartan Stepanovich Sarkisov (Sargsyan) was a Soviet architect of the first half of the twentieth century.

Suren ShaduntsW
Suren Shadunts

Suren Konstantinovich Shadunts was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan between 1934 and 1937. Shadunts was executed in 1940 as part of the Great Purge.

Grikor SuniW
Grikor Suni

Grikor Mirzaian Suni was an Armenian composer.

Sahak Ter-GabrielyanW
Sahak Ter-Gabrielyan

Sahak Mirzoyi Ter-Gabrielyan was a Soviet Armenian statesman. In 1928–1935 he was the Prime-Minister of Armenian SSR.

Vagarshak Ter-VaganyanW
Vagarshak Ter-Vaganyan

Vagarshak Arutyunovich Ter-Vaganyan was an Armenian communist party leader who was one of the first victims of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge. Ter-Vaganyan was one of sixteen Soviet intellectuals who stood as defendants during the Moscow Show Trials. He was accused of being part of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite centre which allegedly prepared terrorist acts against Stalin, Klim Voroshilov, Andrei Zhdanov, Lazar Kaganovich, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Stanislav Kosior, and Pavel Postyshev. Under pressure, Ter-Vaganyan was forced to admit his "guilt." He was shot and his personal property was confiscated by the Soviet Union.

Mustafa VakilovW
Mustafa Vakilov

Mustafa bey Nadir Agha oglu Vakilov was an Azerbaijani public figure, politician and diplomat. He served as the Minister of Internal Affairs. Vakilov was the youngest Azerbaijani minister.

Amatuni VartapetyanW
Amatuni Vartapetyan

Amatuni Vartapetyan was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1936 to 1937. He appeared on Stalin's execution list of July 26, 1938.