Ullubi Buinakski

Ullu-biy Daniyalovich Buynaksky (8 September 1890 – 16 August 1919) was a Dagestani communist revolutionary and military commander active during the Russian Civil War.

Biography He was born in the village of Ullubiyaul in the family of a hereditary Kumyk nobleman and military officer. Buynaksky studied at the law faculty of Imperial Moscow University. He became a member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1916, for which he was expelled from the university.

After the February Revolution, he conducted party work in the Khamovnichesky District of Moscow. In November 1917, he headed the military revolutionary committee of Port-Petrovsk (now Makhachkala). From April 1918, he was a member of the Regional Military Revolutionary Committee, which was transformed in June into the Regional Executive Committee of Soviets, where he served as head of the legal department.

He was sent illegally to Dagestan and reached the heights of where the Regional Executive Committee headed by Djelal ed-Din Korkmasov functioned underground, the overwhelming majority of which consisted of members of the Dagestan Socialist Group. After unifying the Socialist Group, Buynaksky was elected Chairman of the Dagestan Regional Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). The conference also decided to transform the Regional Executive Committee into a Military Council headed by Korkmasov, whose task included organizing and leading the uprising against the occupiers.

The remaining Bolsheviks, led by Korkmasov, who at some point prior to the Whites' invasion, became active in the Temir-Khan-Shura and Dargin districts and raised an unsuccessful uprising in July. The arrested Bolsheviks, including Buynaksky, were brought before a military sharia court and sentenced first to hard labor, then to execution, which was carried out on 18 August 1919 in the area of the Temirgoe station.

He was buried in a mass grave with other revolutionaries in Temir-Khan-Shura (now Buynaksk).

Legacy Monument to the fighters for Soviet power in the square of the Fighters of the Revolution in Makhachkala. In honor of Buynaksky, in 1921 the city of Temir-Khan-Shura, the capital of Dagestan, was renamed Buynaksk. In addition, Ullubiyaul (former Boynak), Ullubiyevka (Novopokrovka), Ullubi-Yurt (former New Jelal), Ullubiy (from 1944 to 1957 the name of the village Church-Irzu) were renamed in his honor.

Multiple streets in Makhachkala, other settlements in Dagestan, as well as in Astrakhan, Rostov-on-Don, Stavropol, Grozny, Chervlennaya station (Chechnya), Kizlyar village (North Ossetia), and Achikulak settlement (Stavropol Krai) are named in his honor.