Meshadi Azizbekov
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Meshadi Azim-bek-ogly Azizbekov (also spelled Azizbayov, Azizbeyov, Ezizbeyov etc. ) (January 6, 1876, Baku - September 20, 1918, nowadays Turkmenistan) was an Azerbaijani revolutionary. He was one of the 26 Baku Commissars of the Soviet Commune that was established in the city after the October Revolution. When the Commune was toppled by the Centro Caspian Dictatorship, a British-backed coalition of Dashnaks, SRs and Mensheviks, Azizbekov and his comrades were captured by British troops and executed by a firing squad between the stations of Pereval and Akhcha-Kuyma of Transcaucasian Railroad.
The district in Greater Baku and metro station in Baku are named after him.
A city in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is named after him too.
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