Lev Shaumyan

Lev Stepanovich Shaumyan (; ; April 25, 1904, Tiflis – May 24, 1971, Moscow) was a Soviet academic and journalist of Armenian background.

Early life and career Born in Tiflis, Shaumyan was the son of the Bolshevik revolutionary Stepan Shaumian. After the fall of the Baku Commune, he was arrested and held in prison together with the 26 Baku Commissars. A member of the CPSU since 1919, he was engaged in underground party work in Baku and Tiflis in 1919–1920. In 1922–1923, he studied at the Sverdlov Communist University in Moscow, where he also married. In 1924–1932, he was engaged in party work in Tsaritsyn and Rostov-on-Don. At his Moscow apartment, he hosted Gulag survivors such as Olga Shatunovskaya and Alexei Snegov. Mikoyan once praised Shaumyan for his "inestimable contribution to the cause of correcting subjective distortions in the history of the Party and for restoring the memory of those outstanding revolutionaries who fell victim to the cult of personality and who were then completely rehabilitated." He was the father of Tatyana Shaumyan.