About Anna Muhammedow
Lived 1900 – 1938. Anna Muhammedow was a politician.
Anna Muhammedow (1900–1938) was the acting first secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR immediately following Yakov Popok's resignation due to ill health on 15 April 1937. He served as the sixth first secretary of the Turkmen Communist Party.
His term lasted six months until, Joseph Stalin selected Yakov Chubin to succeed Popok.
In 1937, Stalin sent a telegram to Muhammedow, authorising the arrest of all Afghan citizens.
He was arrested in October 1937 amid the Great Purge and shot a year later. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.
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Who was Anna Muhammedow?
Soviet politician (1900–1938)
When was Anna Muhammedow born?
Anna Muhammedow was born in 1900 in Transcaspian Oblast.
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Anna Muhammedow died in 1938.
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Anna Muhammedow was a politician.
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