Levon Mirzoyan

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Levon Isayevich Mirzoyan

First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR
In office December 5, 1936 – May 3, 1938
Preceded by	None (Position created)
Succeeded by	Nikolay Skvortsov
Secretary of the Kazakh Regional Committee All-Union Communist Party
In office February, 1933 – December 5, 1936
Preceded by	Filipp Goloshchyokin
Succeeded by	None (Position abolished)
Personal details
Born	December 1887 Ashan Village, Shusha District, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire (now part of Azerbaijan)
Died	February 26, 1939(1939-02-26) (aged 51)
Nationality	Armenian
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Spouse(s)	Yulia Tevossian

Levon Isayevich Mirzoyan was the Secretary of 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.

He was born in Ashan village of Shusha District of Elisabethpol Governorate in a peasant family, an Armenian by nationality. In 1917 he joined the RSDLP. In 1926-1929 first secretary of the CP of Azerbaijan. In the 1929-1933 Secretary of the Perm okruzhkoma, then the 2nd Secretary of the Ural Regional Committee of the CPSU. Since 1933 1st Secretary of the Regional Committee of the Party of Kazakhstan. In 1937, the 1st secretary of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Kazakhstan. He was member of the CEC of the USSR. He was awarded the Order of Lenin.

In 1938, Mirzoyan, sent a telegram to Stalin and Molotov, in which he expressed his disagreement with the decision to move the Koreans deported to Kazakhstan in 1936 from Primorye, the southern part of the republic in the north, where they could engage in rice cultivation. He also received a Stalin and Yezhov, expressed his doubts about the working methods of the NKVD. In the Summer of 1938 Mirzoyan was arrested and detained in Lefortovo Prison in Moscow. On February 26, 1939 he was executed. He was rehabilitated in 1958.

References

"Kazakhstan". World Statesmen. Retrieved 7 March 2010.

v t e Leaders of Kazakhstan

Kazakh SSR	Levon Mirzoyan Nikolay Skvortsov Zhumabay Shayakhmetov Panteleimon Ponomarenko Leonid Brezhnev Ivan Yakovlev Nikolay Belyayev Dinmukhamed Konayev Ismail Yusupov Dinmukhamed Konayev Gennady Kolbin Nursultan Nazarbayev

Kazakhstan	Nursultan Nazarbayev

v t e Leaders of Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan Democratic Republic	Mammed Amin Rasulzade · Alimardan Topchubashov

Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic	Mirza Davud Huseynov · Grigory Kaminsky · Sergey Kirov · Levon Mirzoyan · Nikolay Gikalo · Vladimir Polonsky · Mir Jafar Baghirov · Mir Teymur Yagubov · Imam Mustafayev · Veli Akhundov · Heydar Aliyev · Kamran Baghirov · Abdurrahman Vazirov · Ayaz Mütallibov

Republic of Azerbaijan	Ayaz Mütallibov · Yagub Mammadov^a · Ayaz Mütallibov · Isa Gambar^a · Abülfaz Elchibey · Heydar Aliyev · Ilham Aliyev

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Persondata
Name	Mirzoyan, Levon Isayevich
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Short description
Date of birth	1887-12-0
Place of birth	Ashan Village, Shushin District, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire (now part of Azerbaijan)
Date of death	February 26, 1939
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