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Yakov Zevin

1888 – 1918

Russian politician

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Lived 1888 – 1918 (aged 30). Yakov Zevin was a Russian politician.

Yakov Davidovich Zevin (; 1888–1918) was a Russian revolutionary activist and one of the Bolshevik Party leaders in Azerbaijan during the Russian Revolution. Zevin was born in Krasnapolle, a town in present-day Mahilyow Voblast, Belarus. He became a member of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1904 and was arrested several times for conducting revolutionary activities.

He was a delegate in the 6th (Prague) conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1912, where he represented the group of Mensheviks. After the conference he became close to the Bolshevik positions. In 1915 he was a member of the Baku committee of Bolsheviks. After the February Revolution of 1917 he worked in the Moscow council of working deputies. Zevin became one of the 26 Baku Commissars (he was the Commissar of Labor) of the Soviet Commune that was established in the city after the October Revolution. Funeral of 26 Baku Commissars in 1920 (crying woman is the mother of Mir Hasan Vezirov). When the Commune was toppled by the Centro Caspian Dictatorship, a British-backed coalition of Dashnaks, SRs and Mensheviks, Zevin and his comrades were captured by British troops and executed by a firing squad between the stations of Pereval and Akhcha-Kuyma of Transcaucasian Railroad on September 20, 1918.

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Yakov Davidovich Zevin

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Who was Yakov Zevin?

Russian politician

When was Yakov Zevin born?

Yakov Zevin was born on 21 June 1888 in Krasnapollie.

When did Yakov Zevin die?

Yakov Zevin died on 20 September 1918 in Türkmenbaşy.

What was Yakov Zevin's occupation?

Yakov Zevin was a politician.

What nationality was Yakov Zevin?

Yakov Zevin was Russian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Yakov Zevin

· Wikidata: Q3915046

· DBpedia: Yakov Zevin

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