Career
He was Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic from 1929 to 1931 and he headed the government of the Transcaucasian SFSR from 1931 to 1936. During the Great Purge, Musabekov was arrested (June 1937), accused of plotting against the Soviet state, sentenced to death and executed on 9 February 1938. An Azerbaijani cargo ship is named after him.