Shamil Mahmudbayov (II)

Shamil Mahmudbayov was born in Baku.

He studied at the Baku Realny School (1916) and the Kiev Polytechnic Institute.

He worked in responsible positions since 1920. He was the personal secretary of Nariman Narimanov, chairman of the Shusha District Executive Committee, deputy Extraordinary Commissar of Karabakh and Zangezur, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of Nakhchivan, deputy chairman and chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Nakhchivan, and head of the Central Executive Committee of Azerbaijan.

He fought resolutely against the occupation of our lands by Armenians.

In 1924-1928, he served as chairman of the Azerbaijan State Photo-Cinema Department (AFKI).

Until 1931, he served as vice-rector of the educational department of the Agricultural Institute. In 1931, he was sent to Moscow to the Institute of Red Professors. In 1933, he was sent to Sormova, where he conducted extensive educational work in the city's factories and was engaged in public activities. He studied at the Institute of Marxism-Leninism in Gorky. In March 1936, while studying in the 4th year of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, he was arrested along with a number of professors and students as an "enemy of the people."

He died in prison in 1946 from a cerebral hemorrhage.

He was posthumously acquitted on April 30, 1957, by decision of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union.