Nariman Narimanov Politician
Narimanov Nariman Karbalayi Najaf oglu (Azerbaijani: Nərimanov Nəriman Kərbəlayi Nəcəf oğlu, Russian: Нарима́нов Нарима́н Кербелаи Наджа́ф оглу; April 2, 1870 – March 19, 1925) was an Azerbaijani 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 December 30, 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).The district in Greater Baku, Azerbaijan Medical University and metro station in Baku are named after him. In the Lankaran region there is a town named Narimanabad in his honour. There are cities named after him also in other Post-Soviet states, mainly in Russia.
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