Education
1917 graduate Medical Faculty, Kiev University.
1917 graduate Medical Faculty, Kiev University.
Joined revol movement while still a student. 1912 helped to organize an illegal congress of Moslem students. 1917 returned to Azer after graduate and worked as a physician in Kuba.
Chairman, Kuba Soviet. From December 1917 deputy chairman, Baku Province Food Committee. After collapse of Soviet regime moved to Astrakhan’.
1918 elected chairman, Moslem Section, Astrakhan Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Committee. Simultaneously chief physician at a military hospital. 1920 travelled to Baku with A. 1.
Mikoyan, where he became Azer People's Commissar of Food. 1922-1928 chairman, Azer Council of People's Commissar. 1929-1931 chairman, Azer Central Executive Committee.
1931-1936 chairman, Council of People's Commissar, Transcaucasian SFSR. From 1936 co-chairman, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Central Executive Committee. Member, Communist International Executive Committee.
Member and Presidium member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Central Executive Committee. Presidium member, Central Committee, Communist Party Azerbaydzhan Presidium member, Transcaucasian Kray All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Committee.
Elected candidate member, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) at 14th, 15th and 16th Party Congresses. Made major contribution to the development of the Azer and Transcaucasian health services. Company-founder, Baku Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Baku Institute of Mother and Child Welfare and Baku Malaria Institute.
1937 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs and sentenced to death by firing squad.