Levon Mirzoyan | |
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Լևոն Միրզոյան | |
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First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan | |
In office 5 December 1936 – 3 May 1938 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Nikolay Skvortsov |
Secretary of the Kazakh Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party | |
In office February 1933 – 5 December 1936 | |
Preceded by | Filipp Goloshchyokin |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan | |
In office 21 January 1926 – 5 August 1929 | |
Preceded by | Sergei Kirov |
Succeeded by | Nikolay Gikalo |
Personal details | |
Born | Levon Isayevich Mirzoyan 14 November 1897 Ashan, Shusha uezd, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | 26 February 1939 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | (aged 41)
Nationality | Armenian |
Political party | Russian Communist Party (1917-1938) |
Spouse | Yulia Tevossian |
Levon Isayevich Mirzoyan (Armenian: Լևոն Եսայիի Միրզոյան; Russian: Левон Исаевич Мирзоян) (14 November 1897[1][2] – 26 February 1939) was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan from 21 January 1926 to 5 August 1929 and the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan from 1933 to May 1938. He succeeded Filipp Goloshschyokin as leader during the Soviet-imposed Kazakh Famine of 1930–1933, also known as the Goloshchyokin Genocide, in which at least 1.3 million ethnic Kazakhs died, an estimated 38 to 42 percent[3] of all Kazakhs: the highest percentage of any ethnic group killed by the Soviet famine of 1930–1933. Historians have mixed evaluations of his term, both as a perpetrator of brutal policies against starving Kazakhs and the man who oversaw the nation's recovery.[4]