Alexander Bekzadyan


Alexander Harutyuni Bekzadyan was a Soviet statesman of Armenian descent.
He studied at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute and Zurich University. He was arrested in Russia as a Communist party Baku and Transcaucasia Committees member, escaped in 1906. Bekzadyan participated in different social-democratic and communist conferences in Europe and Russia. In 1920-21 deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Armenia, Minister of Foreign affairs of Soviet Armenia. In 1926-30 deputy chairman of Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Republic government and Minister of Trade. Bekzadyan was the Ambassador of USSR in Norway, and then Hungary.