Amatuni Amatuni | |
|---|---|
Ամատունի Ամատունի | |
 Amatuni after his arrest in 1937 | |
| First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia | |
| In office 13 July 1936 – 21 September 1937 | |
| Preceded by | Aghasi Khanjian |
| Succeeded by | Grigory Arutinov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Amatuni Vardapetyan 24 October 1900 Elizavetpol, Elizavetpol uezd, Elizavetpol Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 28 July 1938 (aged 37) Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Armenian |
Amatuni Simoni Amatuni (Armenian: Ամատունի Սիմոնի Ամատունի; 24 October 1900 – 28 July 1938), born Amatuni Vardapetyan (Armenian: Ամատունի Վարդապետյան), was a Soviet Armenian politician who served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1936 to 1937.
Biography
[edit]Amatuni was born in Elizavetpol (Ganja), Elizavetpol Governorate, Russian Empire. After serving on the Caucasian Front in World War I, he returned to the Caucasus and later became a member of the Bolshevik Party in June 1919.[1] From 1926 to 1927, he studied at the Institute of Red Professors, then held various party positions in Yerevan, Tiflis, and Baku.[1]
An ally of Lavrentiy Beria,[2] Amatuni served as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1935 to 1936, then became First Secretary in 1936 after the death of his predecessor Aghasi Khanjian.[1] With Armenian NKVD chief Khachik Mughdusi, Amatuni oversaw the initial part of the Great Purge in Armenia,[3] before his own arrest on 23 September 1937 by Georgy Malenkov.[4] He was executed on 28 July 1938.[1] Despite his active role in the Stalinist repressions, Amatuni was posthumously rehabilitated in 1977.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Harutyunyan, Avag Aramaisovich (24 March 2023). "Аматуни Аматуни Семёнович". Большая российская энциклопедия (in Russian). Retrieved 29 July 2025.
- ^ Medvedev 1989, p. 413.
- ^ Shakarian 2025, p. 15.
- ^ Shakarian 2025, p. 29.
- ^ Shakarian 2025, pp. 251-252n159.
Bibliography
[edit]- Medvedev, Roy Aleksandrovich (1989). Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism. Translated by Shriver, George. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231063500.
- Shakarian, Pietro A. (2025). Anastas Mikoyan: An Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0253073556.
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