Rza Khalil oghlu Valibeyov (Azerbaijani: Rza Xəlil oğlu Vəlibəyov, 1903–1974) was an Azerbaijani Soviet state-party figure, editor-in-chief of Sovet Ermenistani newspaper.

Rza Valibeyov
Rza Vəlibəyov
The First Secretary of the Vedi District Party Committee
Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Armenia
In office
1937–unknown
First Deputy Minister of Education of the Armenian SSR
In office
1949–1962
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Vedi District Council
In office
1922–1924
Personal details
Born1903 (1903)
Akarak, Etchmiadzin uezd, Erivan Governorate, Russian Empire
Died1974 (aged 70–71)
Erivan, Armenian SSR, USSR
Resting placeKomitas Pantheon
Political partyCPSU
Awards

Biography

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Rza Valibeyov was born in 1903 in the village of Akarak. After studying at the Transcaucasia Communist University in 1924–1928, he worked as the secretary of the Basarkechar District Party Committee, and then for a short time as the editor of Gyzyl Shafaq.[1][2]

After Rza Valibeyov worked as a department head in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia, People's Commissar of Justice of the Armenian SSR, Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, in 1947–1949, he again worked as the editor of the Sovet Ermenistani newspaper, and in 1949–1962, he worked as the First Deputy Minister of Education of the Armenian SSR, and was a Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Armenian SSR.[1][2]

Rza Valibeyov is the only Azerbaijani who was buried in the Alley of Honor (Pantheon) in Yerevan.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "İrəvanda Azərbaycan dilində nəşr olunan mətbuatın tarixi – ARAŞDIRMA – III YAZI". davam.az. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  2. ^ a b ""İrəvanda Azərbaycan dilli ali təhsilin tarixi"". Azərbaycan müəllimi (in Azerbaijani). Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  3. ^ Əsgər Zeynalov (2016). İrəvan xanlığı… gerçəkliyin aydınlığı. Bakı: Mütərcim. p. 656.