Son of a
teacher, he was born in the city of
Shusha (then in
Russian Empire). During his years in secondary school, he joined the revolutionary movement and became a member of the
Socialist-Revolutionary Party. From 1917, he worked with the
Bolsheviks and became one of the
26 Baku Commissars of the Soviet Commune which was established in the city of
Baku after the
October Revolution. He was the People's Commissar of
agriculture from May 1918, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Peasant Deputies of the district of Baku. On June 18, 1918, he authored a law that confiscated
landowners' land and transferred it to the
peasants who worked on it.
Death (the crying woman is the mother of Mir Hasan Vazirov). When the Commune was toppled by the
Centro Caspian Dictatorship, a British-backed coalition of
Dashnaks,
SRs and
Mensheviks, Vazirov and his comrades were captured by
British troops and executed by a
firing squad between the stations of Pereval and Akhcha-Kuyma of Transcaucasian Railroad. ==References==