Alexander Bekzadyan
Alexander Bekzadyan | |
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| Ալեքսանդր Բեկզադյան | |
Bekzadyan in 1909 | |
| Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Hungary | |
| In office 17 November 1934 – 20 November 1937 | |
| Preceded by | Adolf Petrovsky |
| Succeeded by | Viktor Plotnikov |
| Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Norway | |
| In office 30 October 1930 – 17 November 1934 | |
| Preceded by | Alexandra Kollontay |
| Succeeded by | Ignaty Yakubovich |
| People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the Armenian SSR | |
| In office 29 November 1920 – 1 May 1921 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Askanaz Mravyan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 September 1879 Shushi, Elizavetpol Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 1 August 1938 (aged 58) Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR |
Alexander Artemyevich Bekzadyan (Russian: Александр Артемьевич Бекзадян; Armenian: Ալեքսանդր Հարությունի Բեկզադյան, romanized: Alexander Harutyuni Bekzadyan; 15 September 1879 – 1 August 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet statesman of Armenian descent. After serving as Soviet ambassador to Norway and to Hungary he was murdered during the Great Purge.