Early years Korganov was born in
Tiflis in the
Armenian family of a
military officer. From 1907 he attended
Moscow University and headed the Caucasian student association, but he was expelled due to his revolutionary work. After finishing his studies in 1914, he served in the Army as an officer during
World War I and was sent to the
Caucasian Front where he conducted revolutionary propaganda.
October Revolution, Baku Commune and death of Korganov After the
October Revolution he became Chairman of the Revolutionary Army in the Caucasus and, from March 1918, member of the Committee of the Revolutionary Defense of Baku. From April 1918 he became
Commissar of military and naval affairs for the
Baku Commune and from the spring of 1918 he headed the Soviet Armed Forces. When the Commune was toppled by the
Centro Caspian Dictatorship, a British-backed coalition of
Dashnaks,
SRs and
Mensheviks, Korganov and his comrades were captured by
British troops and executed by a
firing squad between the stations of Pereval and Akhcha-Kuyma of the Transcaucasian Railroad. == References ==