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Stepan Shaumian

1878–1918 · 20th century · Also known as Stepan Shahumyan

Stepan Shaumian was an Armenian Bolshevik who led the Baku Commune, the Soviet government of Baku, in 1918. When the commune fell in July 1918 he and other leaders were arrested; they were shot by anti-Bolshevik forces in the Transcaspian desert in September 1918, remembered in Soviet history as the 26 Baku Commissars.

Stepan Shaumian
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Baku Commune

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