Aleksandr Myasnikyan

Aleksandr Teodorosi Myasnikyan a.k.a. Aleksandr Fyodorovich Myasnikov (28 January (9 February) 1886, Nakhichevan-on-Don, Russia – 22 March 1925) was a prominent Bolshevik of Armenian descent.

Myasnikov was the son of a small merchant. He graduated from the law department of Moscow University in 1911. As a student in Nakhichevan and later in Moscow, Myasnikov was active in underground groups beginning from 1901 and formally became a member of the revolutionary movement in 1904. He was arrested and exiled to Baku in 1906.

Between 1912 and 1914, Myasnikov worked as an assistant to a lawyer in Moscow and participated in disseminating political literature. He was drafted into the Russian Army in 1914, where he promoted revolutionary ideas among the soldiers. Myasnikov's revolutionary noms de guerre was Martuni.

After the February Revolution of 1917, Myasnikov became a member of the Western Front's frontline committee and was an editor of the Bolshevik newspaper Zvezda in Minsk. He was elected as a delegate for the 6th Congress of the Bolshevik Party. He became chairman of the Northwestern Regional Committee of the Bolshevik Party, and became part of the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Western Region. Myasnikov was elected the commander of the Western Front at the congress of deputies.

Myasnikov became chairman of Belorussia's Central Executive Committee in early 1919 and chairman of the Bolshevik Party in Belorussia.

When Nikolai Krylenko was appointed Supreme Commander in Chief of the Red Army, he in turn appointed Myasnikyan as his deputy.

In 1921, after the February Uprising, he was appointed Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Armenia, the newly installed government of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. After being appointed as a head of government during the early years of the Armenian Soviet Republic, Myasnikyan was instrumental in the formation of state institutions and economy of the republic. Myasnikyan also initiated active work towards eradicating the illiteracy and developing local manufacturing in Armenia. He is one of the few communist leaders still celebrated in Armenia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. A monument is situated in the center of Yerevan commemorating him. Myasnikyan was killed in a plane crash in 1925.

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