The 26 Baku Commissars were Bolshevik and Left SR members of the Baku Soviet Commune that was established in Baku after the October Revolution. The commune was led by Stepan Shahumyan until July 26, 1918 when the Bolsheviks were forced out of power by a coalition of Dashnaks, Right SRs and Mensheviks. After the overthrow, the Baku commissars attempted to escape but were captured by the White Army and placed in a Baku prison. On September 14, Red Army soldiers broke into the prison and freed the commissars who then boarded a ship to Krasnovodsk, where they were promptly arrested, and on the night of September 20, 1918 executed by a firing squad between the stations of Pereval and Akhcha-Kuyma of the Transcaucasian Railroad. Leaders of the Bolshevik Party and the Communist International, a painting by Malcolm McAllister on the Pathfinder Mural in New York City and on the cover of the book Lenin’s Final Fight published by Pathfinder. ... Municipality: Baku Area: 1000 km² Altitude: -28 m Population: 2,074,300 census 2003 Population density: 1280 persons/km² Postal Code: +99450 Area code: 012 Municipality code: BA Latitude: 41° 01 52 N Longitude: 21° 20 25 E Weather types: 9 of 11 Mayor: Hajibala Abutalybov The Baku region. ... Bolshevik (1920), by Boris Kustodiev. ... Stepan Shaumyan Stepan Georgevich Shaumyan (or Stepan Shahumyan; 1878—20 September 1918) was an Armenian communist politician and revolutionary. ... The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) (Armenian: Hay Heghapokhakan Dashnaktsutiun, Dashnaktsutiun, Dashnak, or Tashnak) is an Armenian political party founded in Georgia in 1890 by Christofor Mikaelian, Rostom Zarian, and Simon Zavarian. ... Socialist-Revolutionary election poster, 1917. ... Leaders of the Menshevik Party at Norra Bantorget in Stockholm, Sweden, May 1917. ... White army may refer to: The military arm of the White movement, a loose coalition of anti-Bolshevik forces in the Russian Civil War The Saudi Arabian National Guard The National Guard of Kuwait This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise... The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (in Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya), the armed forces first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ...

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Main article: Azerbaijan_Democratic_Republic#The_fight_for_Baku

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Impact of execution

Soviet officials blamed the execution on British agents acting in the Baku area at the time, in particular, Reginald Teague-Jones.^[1][1][2] The British denied involvement in the incident, saying it was done by local officials without any knowledge of the British. This caused a further souring of relations between the British and the then fledgling Soviet government and helped lead to the confrontational attitude of both sides in the coming years.

The Soviets would later immortalize the death of the 26 commissars through, among other things, movies[3], artwork[4], stamps[5], and public works including the 26 Commissars Memorial. 26 Commissars Memorial in Baku History This memorial is located in Baku, Azerbaijan. ...

Commissars

The 26 Commissars were:^[2]
Stepan Shahumyan
Meshadi Azizbekov
Prokopius Dzhaparidze
Ivan Fioletov
Mir Gasan Kiazim Vezirov
Grigory Korganov
Y.D. Zevin
L.V. Malygin
G.K. Petrov
A.M. Amiryan
M.V. Basin
S.G. Osepyan
E.A. Berg
V.F. Poluhin
F.F. Solntzev
A.A. Bor'yan
I.Y. Gabyshev
M.R. Koganov
B.A. Avakyan
I.P. Metaksa
I.M. Nikolayshvili
A.M. Kostandyan
S.A. Bogdanov
A.A. Bogdanov
I.A. Mishne
T.M. Amirov
Stepan Shaumyan Stepan Georgevich Shaumyan (or Stepan Shahumyan; 1878—20 September 1918) was an Armenian communist politician and revolutionary. ...

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