Karim Mammadbeyov

Karim Hüseyn oğlu Mammadbeyov (, ; – 7 September 1938) was a Dagestani revolutionary and Soviet politician who participated in the Bolshevik movement in Dagestan and served in various government positions from 1921 to 1937.

Early life Karim Mammadbeyov was born in the village of Yersi, within the Kaitag-Tabasaran District to an ethnic Azerbaijani family of Mammad Huseyn Mammadbeyov, an office clerk, and his wife Seyid-Qayabika.

In 1915, while attending a real school in Derbent, Karim Mammadbeyov began attending revolutionary lectures and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in April 1917. In September 1917, he commenced his undergraduate studies at the University of Kazan, but the events following the October Revolution forced him to go back to Dagestan in early 1918. He actively participated in the events held by the Muslim Social Democratic Party party. He received the Order of the Red Banner in 1922.

While serving in that position, Mammadbeyov effectively suppressed anti-Soviet movements in Chechnya and Dagestan and trained native Dagestanis in civil service, which experienced severe shortage in local cadres. During his term, the first medical, pedagogical and agricultural speciality schools, the Kumyk national theatre, the Dagestan Song and Dance Ensemble, the Folk Instruments Orchestra of Dagestan and the Writers' Union of Dagestan were established. He was not shown the arrest warrant until his third month in custody and the case protocol was completed only five and a half months later. Mammadbeyov was executed by firing squad on 7 September 1938 in Moscow.