Avis Soghomoni Nurijanyan was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician of Armenian origin who served as the People's Commissar for Military Affairs of the Armenian SSR from 1920 to 1921 and People's Commissar for Internal Affairs in 1921.
14 Facts About Avis Nurijanyan
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Avis Nurijanyan is infamous for his role in carrying out mass repressions immediately following the Sovietization of Armenia.
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Avis Nurijanyan was born in 1896 in the village of Vachagan to a peasant family.
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Avis Nurijanyan graduated from the Shusha Real School, then studied at the faculty of economics of the Kiev Commercial Institute from 1913 to 1917.
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Avis Nurijanyan abandoned his studies after his fourth year at the institute and participated in revolutionary activities.
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Avis Nurijanyan took part in revolutionary activities in Baku and the creation of the Baku Commune in 1918.
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Avis Nurijanyan was elected a member of the Baku underground committee of the Russian Communist Party, but was arrested and expelled from Azerbaijan in the summer of 1919.
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Avis Nurijanyan then held a leading position in the Bolshevik organization in Alexandropol.
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In September 1920, Avis Nurijanyan participated in the meeting of the communist organizations of Armenia in Baku and was elected a member of the Central Committee of the newly created Communist Party of Armenia.
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Avis Nurijanyan was a member of the Revolutionary Committee of Armenia formed in Azerbaijan, which made up the new government of Armenia following its Sovietization in November-December 1920.
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Avis Nurijanyan was one of the chief perpetrators of the forced exile and repression of numerous political and military figures of the First Republic of Armenia in January 1921.
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Avis Nurijanyan left Armenia and held various positions in the Communist Party bureaucracy in Leningrad and Ryazan from 1923 to 1930.
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Avis Nurijanyan was a supporter of the Trotskyist Left Opposition and was consequently expelled from the Communist Party in 1927, although his party membership was restored in 1929.
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Avis Nurijanyan worked in Tbilisi until 1937, when he returned to Armenia.