Isidor Barakhov

Isidor Barakhov
Исидор Барахов
Barakhov c. 1920s
Executive Secretary of the
Yakut Regional Committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
In office
June 1926  March 1928
Preceded byVasily Dyakov
Succeeded byNikolay Baryshev
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Yakut ASSR
In office
21 January 1923  June 1924
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byStepan Arzhakov
Personal details
Born12 February [O.S. 31 January] 1898
Kharbalakhsky nasleg, Yakutsk Oblast, Russian Empire (now Sakha Republic)
Died15 September 1938(1938-09-15) (aged 40)
Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union
Cause of deathExecution by firing squad
NationalityYakut
Political partyRSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1917–1918)
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1918–1937)
SpouseAlexandra Andreevna Cherepanova
ChildrenYaroslav
EducationYakut Teachers' Seminary
Institute of Red Professors
OccupationEducator, politician

Isidor Nikiforovich Barakhov (Ivanov) (12 February [O.S. 31 January] 1898 — 15 September 1938) was a Yakutian educator and Soviet politician who served as the first Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic from 1923 to 1924. Barakhov, together with Maksim Ammosov and Platon Oyunsky, played a major role in the formation of the Yakut ASSR. He was executed during the Great Purge.