Levon Mirzoyan
Levon Mirzoyan | |
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Լևոն Միրզոյան | |
Mirzoyan, early 1920s | |
| First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan | |
| In office 5 December 1936 – 3 May 1938 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Nikolay Skvortsov |
| Secretary of the Kazakh Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party | |
| In office February 1933 – 5 December 1936 | |
| Preceded by | Filipp Goloshchyokin |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan | |
| In office 21 January 1926 – 5 August 1929 | |
| Preceded by | Sergei Kirov |
| Succeeded by | Nikolay Gikalo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Levon Isayevich Mirzoyan 14 November 1897 |
| Died | 26 February 1939 (aged 41) |
| Party | Russian Communist Party (1917-1938) |
| Spouse | Yulia Tevossian |
| Awards | Order of Lenin |
Levon Isayevich Mirzoyan (Armenian: Լևոն Եսայիի Միրզոյան; Russian: Левон Исаевич Мирзоян; 14 November 1897 – 26 February 1939) was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan from 21 January 1926 to 5 August 1929 and the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan from 1933 to May 1938. He succeeded Filipp Goloshschyokin as leader during the Soviet-imposed Kazakh Famine of 1930–1933, also known as the Goloshchyokin Genocide, in which at least 1.3 million ethnic Kazakhs died, an estimated 38 to 42 percent of all Kazakhs: the highest percentage of any ethnic group killed by the Soviet famine of 1930–1933. Historians have mixed evaluations of his term, both as a perpetrator of brutal policies against starving Kazakhs and the man who oversaw the nation's recovery.