Nariman Narimanov
| Nariman Narimanov Nəriman Kərbəlayi Nəcəf oğlu Nərimanov |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan SSR | |
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In office May 1920 – 2 May 1921 |
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| President | Grigory Kaminsky (First Secretary of Azerbaijan Communist Party) |
| Preceded by | Fatali Khan Khoyski (ADR) |
| Succeeded by | Mirza Davud Huseynov |
| Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars | |
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In office May 1921 – April 1922 |
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| Preceded by | Office created |
| Succeeded by | Gazanfar Musabekov |
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| Born | 14 April [O.S. 2 April] 1870 Tiflis, Russian Empire |
| Died | 19 March 1925 (aged 54) Moscow, Russian SFSR |
Nariman Karbalayi Najaf oglu Narimanov (Azerbaijani: Nəriman Kərbəlayi Nəcəf oğlu Nərimanov, Russian: Нарима́н Кербелаи Наджа́ф оглу Нарима́нов; 14 April [O.S. 2 April] 1870 – 19 March 1925) was an Azerbaijani Bolshevik revolutionary, writer, publicist, politician, and statesman. For just over one year beginning in May 1920, Narimanov headed the government of Soviet Azerbaijan. He was subsequently elected chairman of the Union Council of the Transcaucasian SFSR. He was also Party Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union from 30 December 1922, until the day of his death.
In the realm of literature, Narimanov translated into Turkic Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector and wrote a large number of plays, stories, and novels, such as Bahadur and Sona (1896). He was also the author of the historical trilogy Nadir-Shah (1899).
One of the central districts and one of the busiest metro station in Baku, a number of streets, parks and halls all over Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan Medical University are named after him. In the Lankaran region there is a town named Narimanabad in his honor. There are cities named after him also in other Post-Soviet states, mainly in Russia.
Nariman Narimanov was born on 14 April (2 April O.S.) 1870 in Tiflis, Georgia, then part of the Russian empire into an ethnic Azerbaijani family. The Narimanov family were middle-class merchants and were able to send their son to the Gori Teachers Seminary, from which he graduated. He went on to attend medical school at Odessa University, graduating in 1908.
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